1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner

Whale Music
Paul Quarrington
Des Howell is a former rock n roll star who never leaves his secluded oceanfront mansion. Naked, rich and fabulously deranged, he subsists on a steady diet of whiskey, pharmaceuticals and jelly doughnuts and occasionally works on his masterpiece, “Whale …
1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Shortlist

A View from the Roof
Helen Weinzweig
