Paul Quarrington reads from his most recent novel, Galveston.

Published by: Random House of Canada

Time of the reading: 5:25


Notes: The author of eight 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, his latest, was short-listed for the Giller Prize.



“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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