Prisoner in a Red Rose Chain Winner of the Commonwealth Writer s Prize for Best First Book Shortlisted for the QSPELL Prize for Best First Book It is by no means clear just how much control Jeremy Davenant has over his
Winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writer s Prize for Best First Book Shortlisted for the 1999 QSPELL Prize for Best First Book It is by no means clear just how much control Jeremy Davenant has over his own destiny For he s convinced that the blueprint of his future already exists on a page picked from a random book Romantic, fatalistic, quixotic, he blithely teaches wit Winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writer s Prize for Best First Book Shortlisted for the 1999 QSPELL Prize for Best First Book It is by no means clear just how much control Jeremy Davenant has over his own destiny For he s convinced that the blueprint of his future already exists on a page picked from a random book Romantic, fatalistic, quixotic, he blithely teaches with forged credentials at a Montreal university while waiting for his life to unfold Yet one glance from a dark lady in the street below, and his life veers into chaotic mischance and obsession.The trouble is, Jeremy s world is full of signs The Page ripped out of an encyclopedia and given to him in childhood by his uncle Gerard is supposed to chart out his life, and somehow the Zulu tyrant Shaka, the Indian love epic Shakuntala, and the city of Shakhtyorsk in the Ukraine all start to feature in Jeremy s life along with William Shakespeare and, of course, his Dark Lady.But Milena s life requires as much decoding as the Page, and Jeremy stumbles after her into farce, terror, and, for a brief spell, bliss.
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Æ Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain || ✓ PDF Read by ☆ Jeffrey Moore
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Born in Montreal, Jeffrey Moore was educated at the University of Toronto, the Sorbonne Paris and the University of Ottawa He is currently a freelance translator and Lecturer in Translation at the Universit de Montr al He works for museums, theatres, dance companies and film festivals around the world, and has an extensive list of published translations to his credit, including Magritte, Century of Splendour and Lost Paradise Symbolist Europe.Prisoner in a Red Rose Chain, his first novel written over several years in Canada, Scotland, England, Hungary and Bali, was a finalist for the QSPELL Literary Awards and winner of both the regional and international Commonwealth Writers Prize 2000 The Memory Artists 2004 won the Canadian Authors Association Award Best Novel , and was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers Trust Award, Sunburst Award, Hugh MacLennan Prize and Wordsworthy Award Both novels have been published in some 20 countries and optioned for film His third novel, The Extinction Club, was published by Penguin Canada and Quercus UK in 2010 and by Arcade U.S in 2013 It was shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan Prize Best Novel and Arthur Ellis Award Best Mystery and longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award He currently divides his time between Montreal and Val Morin, Quebec.