Midway
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2010
- Category
- Literary, Psychological
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770860179
- Publish Date
- Sep 2010
- List Price
- $9.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897151884
- Publish Date
- Sep 2010
- List Price
- $21.00
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Description
Ben Allan, a Montreal literature teacher, finds himself fixated on an obscure mental illness called dromomania: a condition that causes men to abandon their daily routine and go wandering for days, even months. As he juggles strained relationships with his widowed father, his art-therapist wife and his television-addicted teenage son, it comes as no surprise that the idea of walking away from it all becomes so compelling.
Allan is certain he will never wander, but when an attractive young woman with connections to the art world suddenly enters his world, the temptation to stray becomes more than an idle fancy.
Written by award-winning author David Homel, Midway contains everything that readers look for to change their world: engaging characters, entertaining banter, fascinating psychology and a genuine love of life and its everyday comedy.
About the author
David Homel was born in Chicago in 1952 and left that city in 1970 for Paris, living in Europe the next few years on odd jobs and odder couches. He has published eight novels, from Electrical Storms in 1988 to The Teardown, which won the Paragraph Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2019. He has also written young adult fiction with Marie-Louise Gay, directed documentary films, worked in TV production, been a literary translator, journalist, and creative writing teacher. He has translated four books for Linda Leith Publishing: Bitter Roase (2015), (2016), Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa (2017) and Taximan (2018). Lunging into the Underbrush is his first book of non-fiction. He lives in Montreal.
Awards
- Nominated, QWF Paragraphe Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction
Editorial Reviews
“Homel’s dialogue [about the time Ben spends with his father] is spot on, capturing the two men as they circle around what is on their minds but can’t bring themselves to articulate.”
Canadian Jewish News
“[A] finely crafted, intelligent and moving novel … An impressive book that rewards close reading … No matter where you are in your life journey, Midway is a fiction that will provide aesthetic and intellectual sustenance and emotional comfort on the road.”
The Globe and Mail
“Homel writes with remarkable grace about the simplest aspects of life, and the most complicated … a perceptive and thought-provoking exploration into the life of its protagonist.”
Quill and Quire
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