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Sparrow Nights

Sparrow Nights

Gilmour, David

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Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 067931184X
ISBN13: 9780679311843
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: Nov 12 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
An exhilarating novel of erotic and psychotic extremes from one of Canada's best fiction writers.

Everyone would agree that Darius Halloway was the most civilized of men, a professor of French literature, a connoisseur of ideas and women and wine, a perfect guest at life's dinner party. Darius himself would have agreed, until Emma, waifish and insatiable, walks out the door, leaving her empty clothes hangers rattling in his closet.

For a little while, it's not so bad. He thinks she must come back, and other women find his melancholy quite compelling. But then the sparrows of insomnia start picking at the inside of his skull. Life's little aggravating moments seem to require him to seek direct retaliation. Soon all his smoothness and cleverness is directed toward wreaking the most elaborate revenge... and getting away with it. Until the ultimate retaliation arises, and there he is, in the most damning of situations, with his nerves on fire and his heart in his throat...finally not thinking of Emma.

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