Best Selling Books by Timothy Findley

Here is the powerful, haunting "Lemonade,"where a young boy''s world is shattered by his mother''s self-destruction, and eleven other stories, including "Dinner along the Amazon,"an unusual journey into the complexities of contemporary relationships. Introduction by Frances Itani Frances Itani is the bestselling, award-winning author of Deafening. She has also published five acclaimed short story collections, three poetry collections, and a children''s book. Frances Itani lives in Ottawa.

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Timothy Findley is on the bestseller lists — again. Pilgrim, hisnewest and most ambitious novel yet, has gone like a bullet to the upperechelons of all the Canadian lists. Findley fans are out in full force, and manywill be looking for another Findley fix. Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer’sNotebook will satisfy the craving with equally wonderful doses of memories,love and laughter. Now repackaged in the popular new PerennialCanada imprint, InsideMemory invites the reader to share Findley’s life and work. Drawing fromhis personal journal entries and eclectic reflections, recollections and even anout-take from one of his early novels, the award-winning author shares hisextraordinary life with his readers. From his early days as an actor in London’s West End, through to histransition to a writer, Findley entertains with the fascinating people and reallife settings that have shaped his life. At the same time, he reveals thecreative landscape of his mind and his work, a journey that shows how memoryinforms and infuses every aspect of his books. Above all, Findley tells greatstories, showing once again that he is a true master of his craft.

Against a vivid terrain of images, Findley continues his exploration of the many diverse and destructive acts played out on the personal battlegrounds on which we live our daily lives. From the realities of contemporary relationships to a fantastic vision of urban life, from social comment to the deeply personal, Stones is a powerful collection of stories from one of Canada''s best-loved writers.

Award-winning author Timothy Findley spins an intimate tale of patrician murder among the summering clientele of a soon-to-be-razed elegant old hotel on the coast of Maine.

Findley has written a small gem of a novel in this World War II story set on the Home Front. Findley uses the device of a family photo album to recall the personal history and memories of the boy, Matthew Forbes, whose parents'' marriage is dissolving during the time of the false peace of wartime Canada.

Ageless. Sexless. Deathless. Timeless. Pilgrim is a man who cannot die, an astounding character in a novel of the cataclysmic contest between creation and destruction. Pilgrim is Timothy Findley’s masterwork, a finalist for the Giller Prize, and a national bestseller that has smashed the author’s own impressive sales records. It is 1912 and Pilgrim has been admitted to the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zürich, Switzerland, having failed—once again—to commit suicide. Over the next two years, it is up to Carl Jung, self-professed mystical scientist of the mind, to help Pilgrim unlock his unconsciousness, etched as it is with myriad sufferings and hopes of history. Is Pilgrim mad, or is he condemned to live forever, witness to the terrible tragedy and beauty of the human condition? Both intimate and expansive in its scope, with an absorbing parade of characters—mythic, fictional and historical—Pilgrim is a fiercely original and powerful story from one of our most distinguished artists.

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Narrated by Charlie Kilworth, whose birth is an echo of his mother''s own illegitimate beginnings, The Piano Man''s Daughter is the lyrical, multilayered tale of Charlie''s mother, Lily, his grandmother Ede, and their family. Lily is a woman pursued by her own demons, "making off with the matches just when the fires caught hold," "a beautiful, mad genius, first introduced to us singing in her mother''s belly." It is also the tale of people who dream in songs, two Irish immigrant families facing a new and uncertain future in turn-of-the-century Toronto. Finally, it is a richly detailed tribute to a golden epoch in our history and of a generation striking the last, haunting chord of innocence.The Piano Man''s Daughter is a symphony of wonderful storytelling, unforgettable characters, and a lilting, lingering melody that plays on long after the last page has been turned.

The Trials of Ezra Pound is a stark portrayal of Ezra Pound at the end of his public life. Based upon the preliminary hearings of the trials held in Washinton, D.C. in late 1945 and early 1946, Timothy Findley reveals what the original transcripts do not - Pound''s emotionally charged interpretation of the events and his self-destruction. By letting Pound pace impatiently between time and place, Findley conducts a rare dramatic dance in The Trials of Ezra Pound - he takes the trial beyond one courtroom and into the realm of all humanity and it is here, in the light of Ezra Pound''s harsh contradictions, that Findley asks the reader not to judge, but how to judge.

Expanded versions of columns originally publishing in Harrowsmith magazine.

Despite his fear of flying and his distaste for speed, Timothy Findley was a traveler--embarking on trips to write, to read, to speak and to enjoy. Many of his journeys involved a unique vehicle, Tiff''s own imagination--a magic carpet that transports his readers into his unforgettable stories. Journeyman is a collection of the voyages that informed and shaped what, and how, Timothy Findley wrote. Lovingly compiled and annotated by Bill Whitehead, Findley''s life partner, Journeyman is a combination of journal entries, speeches, letters, poems, anecdotes, and excerpts from plays. The first of four sections, "Going Places," chronicles excursions made by land, water and air: a comical tribute to Tiff and Bill''s first car, a sagegreen Valiant; a surreal trip to Australia, where novelist Ken Kesey continued his pub reading despite a fist fight next door; and a Thanksgiving prayer written after September 11, 2001. "From Past Imperfect to Future Tense" is a time-travel flight through memory and imagination. Readers will meet a few of Tiff''s ancestors, including Uncle Frank Bull, who transformed himself into Maestro Francois von Buell to escape the stifling bonds of Methodist Upper Canadian society. "Pen Power" is all about writers and writing, and "Theatre Tours and Final Curtain" takes us on an insider''s tour of Tiff''s favorite world. The book ends with Tiff''s last written words, three poignant final lines of a one-act play. Journeyman is a lasting gift from Timothy Findley to all of his many fans.

"Based on the seven one-hour motion pictures commissioned by Imperial Oil Limited to celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary and viewed by millions on the CBS television network."--Dust jacket

Sono le prime ore del mattino del 17 aprile 1912 nel giardino della casa al numero 18 di Cheyne Walk, a Londra, quando il dottor Greene accerta che l’uomo in pigiama bianco e vestaglia di seta blu, che giace riverso sull’erba ancora fredda e umida, è tecnicamente morto. L’uomo si chiama Pilgrim e qualche ora prima, dopo aver attraversato il giardino con in una mano il cordone di seta della sua veste da camera e, nell’altra, una robusta sedia Sheraton, si è impiccato all’acero più alto del parco. Prima di apporre la propria firma al certificato di morte, Greene decide, tuttavia, di rivolgersi all’illustre collega Hammond, che prontamente accorre e, dopo un rapido esame del corpo, non può che convenire che Pilgrim è «morto come può essere morto un uomo». Mezz’ora dopo, però, il cuore dell’uomo riprende a battere, e poco più tardi ritorna anche il respiro... Deciso, con ogni evidenza, a morire e, con altrettanta evidenza, incapace di farlo, Pilgrim si rifugia nel più assoluto mutismo, al punto che alla bella ed enigmatica Lady Sybil Quartermaine, la sua più cara amica, non resta che condurlo alla clinica psichiatrica Burghölzli di Zurigo, dove conduce le sue originali ricerche Carl Gustav Jung. «Ho vissuto molte vite, dottor Jung... Vidi la prima rappresentazione di Amleto e l’ultima recita dell’attore Molière. Fui amico di Oscar Wilde e nemico di Leonardo...» Le confessioni del suo singolare paziente penetrano a fondo nell’animo e nella mente di Jung. Chi è Pilgrim? Un mitomane profondamente malato, un geniale millantatore oppure la vittima di una strana maledizione? E chi è, a sua volta, lui, Carl Gustav Jung, con quella sua personalità piena d’arroganza e d’intuizione, di compassione e di disumanità? Romanzo ambizioso, fantastico, metafisico, nel quale fanno la loro apparizione personaggi come Henry James, Oscar Wilde e Monna Lisa, L’uomo che non poteva morire può essere letto come uno straordinario racconto sulla nascita dell’Europa del XX secolo, oppure come un romanzo sull’eterno conflitto tra distruzione e creazione, o, infine, come una magnifica storia sugli abissi insondabili dell’identità umana.

En 1945, dans un palace abandonné des Alpes autrichiennes, un écrivain américain traqué, zélateur du fascisme, couvre les murs et les plafonds de ses souvenirs : la Chine de 1924; la France de 1936; l''Espagne de 1938; les Bahamas de 1942. Une méditation sur l''homme et sur l''histoire, par un écrivain canadien anglais de calibre international.

Mars 1945... Dans un palace perdu au cœur des Alpes autrichiennes, un écrivain américain, grand admirateur d''Ezra Pound dont il partage la fascination pour le fascisme, entreprend de tapisser le plafond et les murs de la " prodigieuse " histoire de son existence. Aux bruits et à la fureur de la Chine de 1924 vont succéder les échos de la France et de l''Angleterre de 1936, puis ceux des Bahamas de 1942. Une fresque décadente et perverse pleine de tumulte et d''orages, où les enfers personnels tiennent lieu de paradis perdus, traversée par des personnages imaginaires maudits et cruels et par d''autres, empruntés à la réalité, comme Ribbentrop, Hess, Lindbergh ou Hemingway. Deux d''entre eux, deux êtres étranges et somme toute fascinants retiennent aussi l''attention : les futurs duc et duchesse de Windsor. Un roman inoubliable où la fiction l''emporte sur la réalité. Elle ne l''imite pas mais la crée. On y croit comme on adhère à la vérité. C''est tout l''art époustouflant de Timothy Findley.