Whale Music
Sep 2011 · Vintage Canada
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Des Howell is a former rock 'n' roll star who never leaves his secluded oceanfront mansion. Naked, rich and fabulously deranged, he subsists on a steady diet of whiskey, pharmaceuticals and jelly doughnuts and occasionally works on his masterpiece, "Whale Music." One day, upon awakening from his usual drunken stupor, Des discovers on his sofa a young alien from the faraway universe of Toronto. This girl has made the trek to Des' hideaway because she believes in the "Whale Music" and she's crazy enough to think that Des can make a comeback hit with his mad magnum opus--
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About the author
PAUL QUARRINGTON was the author of ten novels, including Whale Music, King Leary, and Galveston. He was also a musician, an award-winning screenwriter, a filmmaker, a playwright and an acclaimed non-fiction writer. He won the Governor General’sLiterary Award for Fiction for Whale Music in 1989 and the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1988 for King Leary. In 2004, his novel Galveston was nominated for The Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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