Etinne Morneau is an unassuming young man of few friends and even fewer words. A recluse, the only way he can make sense of the world around him is to compile lists and stick to a routine. Details of ordinary life that we accept as a matter of course, he often finds difficult to grasp. As a result, he believes he does not know or feel enough to express anything worth expressing. Yet in spite of Etienne''s unique perspective, or perhaps because of it, he is secretly a creative genius. His art an attempt to capture in images what his mind cannot define in words - is infused with a strange beauty; and his journals - organized in the form of a dictionary reveal an innocent soul yearning to take part in life and all its small glories. Featuring elegant writing and an unforgettable narrator, Etinne''s Alphabet is proof that all it takes to make the world remarkable and new is a "different" set of eyes.
James King, Distinguished University Professor in the Faculty of
Humanities at McMaster University, has been a John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Fellow and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He
is the author of four previous novels: Faking (1999), Blue Moon
(2000), Transformations (2003), and Pure Inventions (2006). He is
also the author of eight works of biography, the subjects of which
include William Blake, Margaret Laurence, Jack McClelland, and
Farley Mowat. His biography of Herbert Read, The Last Modern, was
nominated for the Governor Generals Literary Award. James King
lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
James King, Distinguished University Professor in the Faculty of
Humanities at McMaster University, has been a John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Fellow and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He
is the author of four previous novels: Faking (1999), Blue Moon
(2000), Transformations (2003), and Pure Inventions (2006). He is
also the author of eight works of biography, the subjects of which
include William Blake, Margaret Laurence, Jack McClelland, and
Farley Mowat. His biography of Herbert Read, The Last Modern, was
nominated for the Governor General''s Literary Award. James King
lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
James King is the author of four previous
novels: Faking (1999), Blue Moon (2000),
Transformations (2003), and Pure
Inventions (2006). He is also the author of eight works of
biography, the subjects of which include William Blake, Margaret
Laurence, Jack McClelland, and Farley Mowat. His biography of
Herbert Read, The Last Modern, was nominated for the
Governor General''s Literary Award. James King lives in Hamilton,
Ontario and teaches at McMaster University in the Department of
English.
