This Lark of Stolen Time - Cumyn, Richard; Cumyn, Richard
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Lauder Jones and Mountcastle, two Halifax families both alike in dignity, linked by love and circumstance. Douglas Lauder Jones, obscure story writer, calls it "Life and No Escape." His lovelorn son John thinks it's the end of happiness. Neuroscientist Ursula Lauder Jones sees it as sink-or-swim parenting. Whatever it is, her daughter Merin, new owner of a movie house on Barrington Street, wants to sit through it twice. Her sister Anya, summer student working at Mountcastle Framing on Spring Garden Road, relishes life's richly varied fabric. And the youngest, Cary, budding writer, recognizes…mehr

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Lauder Jones and Mountcastle, two Halifax families both alike in dignity, linked by love and circumstance. Douglas Lauder Jones, obscure story writer, calls it "Life and No Escape." His lovelorn son John thinks it's the end of happiness. Neuroscientist Ursula Lauder Jones sees it as sink-or-swim parenting. Whatever it is, her daughter Merin, new owner of a movie house on Barrington Street, wants to sit through it twice. Her sister Anya, summer student working at Mountcastle Framing on Spring Garden Road, relishes life's richly varied fabric. And the youngest, Cary, budding writer, recognizes it as apt material for the many stories stitching this novel's intriguing brocade.
Autorenporträt
RICHARD CUMYN is the author of nine books of literary fiction. A past fiction editor of The Antigonish Review, he has been published widely in Canada in such literary journals as The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Grain, Prism International and Event. He has been shortlisted twice for the ReLit Award, a finalist for a National Magazine Award (essay), and long listed for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His screen adaptation of Susan Kerslake's novel, Penumbra, won a 1998 Linda Joy Media Arts Award. He has taught fiction at the Maritime Writers' Workshop, read his work in the Dalhousie University, St. Jerome's (Waterloo) and Lorenzo reading series and been short-term writer in residence at St. Mary's University. In 2003 and 2004 he mentored emerging writers Ami McKay ( The Birth House, Knopf) and Ryan Turner ( What We're Made Of, Oberon) in the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program. He lives in Edmonton.