Timothy FindleyFamous Last WordsCanada: Penguin Books, 1982396pp. $15.999780440325437Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley is a book based on the events of World War II following the accounts of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, an American Poet who sides with the fascist movement, and Annie Oakley, a libera...
1) '''Stella,' the doctor informed him, 'will not recover. Of course she will not recover. No one with half a brain can recover, Mister Bragg. Your daughter, I'm afraid, is doomed. I'm sorry.'Before he left, the doctor turned at the door and said: 'You can come and see me any time you want -- but...
I enjoyed these stories, although occasionally I felt that I was missing something that was obliquely expressed. Still, it's a merit in a short story if you have to put the book down after you finish it and think hard about it for a few minutes instead of just ploughing on.That may be why my favo...
This book was good, but not my favourite Findley novel, although perhaps this is the point. It is well redeemed by its imagery and thoughtful passages that stuck with me long after finishing the novel itself, and reasonated with the complexities and ironies of life and death, love and beauty, pow...