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David Gilmour's Novels
 | Sparrow Nights
Random House of Canada
ISBN: 0679311122
September 2001
US Edition: Counterpoint Press
ISBN 1-58243-203-1
May 1, 2002 |
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An exhilarating novel of erotic and psychotic extremes from one of Canada’s best fiction
writers.
Everyone would agree that Darius Halloway was the most civilized of men, a professor of
French literature, a connoisseur of ideas and women and wine, a perfect guest at life’s
dinner party. Darius himself would have agreed, until Emma, waifish and insatiable, walks out
the door, leaving her empty clothes hangers rattling in his closet.
For a little while, it’s not so bad. He thinks she must come back, and other women find
his melancholy quite compelling. But then the sparrows of insomnia start picking at the
inside of his skull. Life’s little aggravating moments seem to require him to seek direct
retaliation. Soon all his smoothness and cleverness is directed toward wreaking the most
elaborate revenge . . . and getting away with it. Until the ultimate retaliation arises, and
there he is, in the most damning of situations, with his nerves on fire and his heart in
his throat . . . finally not thinking of Emma.
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