The beekeeper [Hardcover]

Keith Henderson (Author)

List Price:	CDN$ 24.95
Price:	CDN$ 20.34 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over CDN$ 25. Details
You Save:	CDN$ 4.61 (18%)
	o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

Usually ships within 9 to 11 days.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca. Gift-wrap available.

Product Details

Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Dc_books (1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0919688225
ISBN-13: 978-0919688223
Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 16.8 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 381 g

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Review

A roisterous jaunt through male envy.... -- The Edmonton Journal

Fast-paced and well written...[with] interesting observations about the effect decadent European sensibilities had on the Canadian artistic landscape. -- The Globe and Mail

The characters are beautifully realized.... Henderson is hilarious when he's mocking the cerebral pretensions of the bohemian set. -- Books In Canada

“A roisterous jaunt through male envy.... ” -- — The Edmonton Journal

“Beautifully realized characters.... Henderson is hilarious when he's mocking the cerebral pretensions of the bohemian set.” -- — Books in Canada

“Fast-paced and well written....” -- — The Globe and Mail

Book Description

Young, impressionable, twenty-year-old Walter Taylor flees his suburban home in search of freedom and adventure and stumbles into more than he bargained for. Set in a chaotic bee-farm at the height of the 1960s, home to a bohemian, European-born artist and his mistresses, The Beekeeper is filled with allusion, irony, and high humour, yet sets in stark relief the fund of violence and ignorance that underlay the romantic dreams of the 1960s.

Henderson has written a hilarious satirical portrait of the last generation's counter-culture movement, as well as an original and thought-provoking assessment that what produced this rebellion was to a large measure transplanted European ideas originating not only in the last century but beyond.

See all Product Description

Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.

First Sentence
LIKE MANY YOUNG MEN of twenty in those later years of the 1960's, Walter Taylor wanted to leave home but had discovered too many reasons why he couldn't. Read the first page

Explore More
Concordance

Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover