Significant Things - Dundurn

Significant Things

A Novel

Published April 2003

Description

Short-listed for the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada Region

A man of innate taste and discrimination, Edward has become an art dealer and collector of fine antiques and paintings. During his first six idyllic years he was the centre and focus of his mother’s existence. Betrayals and unhappiness in subsequent years have led him to form almost fetishistic attachments to beautiful objects, as a substitute for the human relationships that have invariably failed him.

Now in his late forties, on a holiday in Sicily, Edward falls deeply in love with a young English-Italian artist, but he has not yet learned that there is a difference between loving and possessing.

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Helen McLean

Writer and artist Helen McLean was born in Toronto where she now lives. She has exhibited her paintings across Canada, and has been a teacher and a journalist. She is the author of Sketching from Memory (Oberon Press), Of All the Summers (Women's Press), and the acclaimed memoir Details From a Larger Canvas (Dundurn Press).

Book Details

Paperback
April 2003
5.25x7.25 in
260 pp
9781550024418
ePub
April 2003
-
260 pp
9781554886074
ePub
April 2003
-
260 pp
9781770701458