- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Canada; Trade PB edition (April 23 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0676974430
- ISBN-13: 978-0676974430
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #832,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Silent Cruise, 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, Stanley Park. 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 setting in western Canada and an interest in food.
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. --Jack Illingworth
From Booklist
This collection of stories by the author of the novel Stanley Park [BKL Mr 15 02] includes "Doves of Townsend," winner of the Journey Prize, the Canadian counterpart of the O. Henry Prize, for best short story of 2000. "Doves" presents Clare, who inherited the collectibles business that grew out of her father's passion for rare knives. Mourning his suicide, she rediscovers, through a family friend's kindness, the world's beauty in the microcosm of a Postman butterfly. As lovely in its own way is "Smoke's Fortune," about the shooting of a rabid Doberman amid the odd splendor of carefully organized car radiators, fenders, and hubcaps in a junkyard. "The Resurrection Plant" in that story is a brown husk that looks dead. In "A dried dog turd," a science student hoots as the class tries everything to prove it dead or kill it. Yet to a schoolboy browbeaten by a Nazi sympathizer, it symbolizes the rebirth of hope and justice after the Holocaust. Taylor's graceful touch and keen eye leave one eager for his next book. Whitney Scott
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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An evocative collection of stories.,
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This review is from: Silent Cruise (Paperback)
After reading "Stanley Park", I checked to see what else this author might have written and read this collection of short stories.This collection really showcases Tim Taylor's talents. All the stories are tightly written and very evocative. His writing style is very detailed and immerses you into the environment he's set the story in. The tales in the collection show elements he later used Stanley Park, and the novella at the end of the collection show the same fine attention to detail. There isn't a bad story in the lot - a solid 4 star rating.
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An evocative collection of stories.,
By Roger Leroux "leroy43" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Silent Cruise (Paperback)
After reading "Stanley Park", I checked to see what else this author might have written and read this collection of short stories.This collection really showcases Tim Taylor's talents. All the stories are tightly written and very evocative. His writing style is very detailed and immerses you into the environment he's set the story in. The tales in the collection show elements he later used Stanley Park, and the novella at the end of the collection show the same fine attention to detail. There isn't a bad story in the lot - a solid 4 star rating. |
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