false 356051 2 <I>Silent Cruise</I>, Timothy Taylor's first collection of short fiction, is a long, lush series of stories that will delight fans of his enormously successful debut novel, <I>Stanley Park</I>. Several of these strangely original stories are obliquely connected with each other (either through strange thematic turns or common characters), and they share with the novel a western Canada setting and an interest in food.<p> Taylor begins with "Doves of Townsend," a piece about an antique buyer whose fetishization of beautiful made things is challenged by a calculated brush with the real world--in the form of a collection of butterflies found scattered across a table at a flea market. The author then moves into even more eclectic territory: in "The Resurrection Plant" an ostracized Jewish high school student in Edmonton shares a locker with a teenage tough who insists on displaying a Nazi flag; while in "The Boar's Head Easter" a Vancouver cook travels to Chicago to meet his mother's mysterious old flame, nursing a half-spoken passion for his best friend's girlfriend all the while. The novella that concludes the collection, "NewStart 2.0TM," traces two artists from rural Saskatchewan through their truly bizarre lives to a confrontation in Rome, raising old questions about artistic production in a strange and unusual fashion. A couple of the pieces (most notably the title story) feel like filler, but by and large they are deft, melancholic, and utterly wonderful. <I>--Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca</I> 346225 15 10 2002 Silent Cruise: A Novella and Stories total:8|5:2|4:2|3:4|2:0|1:0| 8 30 18 2 3 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 22:14:12 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 22:21:39 -0800 2009
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