Paul Quarrington

Paul Quarrington reads from his novel, Galveston

Published by: Random House of Canada

Time of Reading: 5:25

The author of ten novels, Paul Quarrington is also a musician, an award-winning screenwriter, a filmmaker, a playwright and an acclaimed non-fiction writer. He wrote the screenplays for Camilla, Whale Music, Giant Steps and Perfectly Normal, the latter becoming a huge underground cult film around universities and colleges. He won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for Whale Music in 1989 and the Stephen Leacock Medal the year before for King Leary. The novel Galveston was short-listed for the Giller Prize. His latest novel is The Ravine.

“Paul Quarrington’s ninth novel (and one of his best) is a terrific, brilliant, near-perfect piece of vacation reading for that inevitable low in every holiday when black clouds gather, the sky turns to thunder, plans fall apart and a paper world is preferable to the real one. Galveston will keep you engrossed page by page until daylight fades, the power goes out or a bottle of wine gets the better of you….”
—The Globe and Mail

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