Recensione:
"Summer Gone is a homage to our most excruciating and beautiful memories. Within this novel is the marvellous height of summer, perfect and fleeting, a place and time we can never get enough of." --The Globe and Mail
"Summer Gone is a novel about telling stories — one that merges fiction and truth, past and present, memory and action, into one dangerous and beautiful current." --The Calgary Herald
"David Macfarlane rises to the challenge of a first novel...[he] gets degree of difficulty points...[and] it works. Mr. Macfarlane writes beautifully and gets his story across powerfully...a rewarding reading experience." --The Ottawa Citizen
"Summer Gone is a summer vacation in the north woods, with all that implies to you the reader." --Winnipeg Free Press
"As with most good fiction, the real joy of Macfarlane’s book is in the quietly choreographed moments where the author’s insights into people mesh with his undeniable skill with language." --Eye
"...Summer Gone is a polished, well-crafted novel that dwells on fresh, powerful themes." --The Annex Gleaner
"...Summer Gone is a triumph of voice, storytelling and slippery connections." --The Vancouver Sun, Aug. 28/99
Praise for The Danger Tree:
"I've just discovered The Danger Tree and am stunned. It is so good. About the best prose to ever come out of this country, for my money." — Alice Munro
"[David Macfarlane’s] Newfoundland memoir, The Danger Tree, is easily one of the most readable and beautifully written books to emerge from Canada in recent years." --Mordecai Richler, Saturday Night
"The Danger Tree is a masterpiece. David Macfarlane is an architect of the past, building extraordinary memory mansions in which the reader feels eerily at home." --Alberto Manguel
L'autore:
David Macfarlane has won 6 gold National Magazine Awards as well as the Sovereign Award for Magazine Journalism and the Author's Award for Magazine Writing; he is also a national columnist for The Globe and Mail. His memoir of Newfoundland, The Danger Tree, won the Canadian Author's Association Award for Non-Fiction in l992. He lives in Toronto.
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