Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson

by Fred Flahiff

Overview

Crafted from archives interviews memories and bankers’ boxes of papers sent to the author during the years before her death Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson is the portrait of a woman shaped by her times by her turbulent marriage by the clarity of genius and by the moral sense of her Catholic upbringing With the gentle touch of an old friend Flahiff provides a poignant insight into the woman the westerner and the writer Best known for the modernist novel The Double Hook and her part in creating the literary magazine White Pelican Watson’s life was as rich and complex as her finest literary creation

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781896300832
Publisher:	NeWest Publishers, Limited
Publication date:	04/01/2005
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

F T Flahiff first met Sheila Watson when they were both graduate students in Marshall McLuhan’s graduate seminar at the University of Toronto Toronto became Flahiff’s permanent home where he taught at St Michael’s College in the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1999