Timothy Findley

Not Wanted on the Voyage

Published 1984

This is thee story of the great flood and the first time the world ended. The interesting characters include the tyrranical Noah, his indomitable wife and many others.

The Piano Man's Daughter

490 pages

Narrated by Charlie Kilworth, whose birth is an echo of his mother's own illegitimate beginnings, The Piano Man's Daughter is the lyrical, multilayered tale of Charlie's mother, Lily, his grandmother Ede, and their family. Lily is a woman pursued by her own demons, "making off with the matches just when the fires caught hold," "a beautiful, mad genius, first introduced to us singing in her mother's belly." It is also the tale of people who dream in songs, two Irish immigrant families facing a new and uncertain future in turn-of-the-century Toronto.

The Telling Of Lies

Published 1987 · 359 pages

The Wars

226 pages

Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war -- the War to End All Wars. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare, of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death.