Bøger af Richard Cumyn

Lauder Jones and Mountcastle, two Halifax families both alike in dignity, linked by love and circumstance. Douglas Lauder Jones, obscure story writer, calls it "Life and No Escape." His lovelorn son John thinks it's the end of happiness. Neuroscientist Ursula Lauder Jones sees it as sink-or-swim parenting. Whatever it is, her daughter Merin, new owner of a movie house on Barrington Street, wants to sit through it twice. Her sister Anya, summer student working at Mountcastle Framing on Spring Garden Road, relishes life's richly varied fabric. And the youngest, Cary, budding writer, recognizes it as apt material for the many stories stitching this novel's intriguing brocade.

A disparate group of travellers is thrown together in the Caucasus Mountains. Each has a quest and peering into ones own heart may be the most challenging prospect.

A calculus formula, a calculating boy, a girl who is intelligent but unwise -- these are the ingredients of the gripping story at the heart of Richard Cumyn's new collection. Human relations motivate "The Limit of Delta Y Over Delta X," especially the surface tension between men and women.But even looking at the darker side of humanity, Richard Cumyn finds plenty to laugh about. "The Sound He Made" dares readers to snicker at Bam's bold violence, and "Shel Do the Right Thang" is a funny fantasia on love and marriage.