David Helwig

• Nov-1986
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Tells the life of an Anglican bishop, whose life has been full, but who now lies on his deathbed after a debilitating stroke. The story looks at several people whose lives touch that of the bishop, slowly, the reader pieces together the life of a rem...

• Sep-1988
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Having escaped the subservience of his youth as the child of domestics to the wealthy Randall family, Walter, a professor, finds his past returning to haunt him when he encounters Ada, a spoiled, rich student and neighbor of the Randalls...

• Sep-1988
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• Sep-1989
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• Sep-1990
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• Jan-1991
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• May-1999
• / Literary
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A snug country house, a snowy landscape in a place that could be Prince Edward Island, a small-town lawyer bumbling through an emotional crisis -- Close to the Fire is a winter's tale that warms the heart while gently chilling the blood. Many years...

• Mar-2000
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In The Time of Her Life, David Helwig draws us into the world of a woman of character. Indeed how Helwig tells the tale is as absorbing as the tale itself as we follow Jean from small-town Ontario to a privileged life as la contesse de Serviède i...

• Aug-2002
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A retired academic is called to a remote university to speak as the replacement for an old friend recently deceased in unusual circumstances. The Stand-In is a transcript of these lectures, revealing a sophisticated tale of art, fame, and adultery th...

• Sep-2004
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Duet, a vivid and comic account of a stubbornly unromantic romance, is the story of Carman, a retired Toronto policeman, who takes to wandering in the wake of his wife's death. On a whim, he rents a cottage north of Kingston from Norma, the cantan...

• Jan-2006
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"Birdsong, wind: here by the ocean every noise was surrounded by silence that reached all the way to the stars. Monica studied the white shingled building above the slope of green lawn, deep bays rising two storeys on each side of the front door and ...

• Aug-2007
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Writer David Helwig's place in Canadian Letters spans practically every realm, from novels, short fiction, poetry, and plays, to essays and reportage. Helwig is one of the generation of writers including Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Onda...

• Oct-2007
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Abandoned by his wife (for spirituality and yoga, she says), a retired teacher surviving a hard winter on memory and jokes finds that life still has surprises in store for him. Including an attractive former student and an empty old church that he...

• Nov-2010
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Mystery Stories is inhabited by absence: dead friends, past childhoods and ex-lovers. Others, stunned, are left behind to navigate the pitfalls of memory, while trying to make sense of lives built by people who are no longer there. This collection...

• Jan-2014
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Betrayed by his oldest friend, a boyhood companion, his gingerly constructed career at stake, Clyde Bryanton, property developer and Ottawa political consultant, unpeels layers and layers of memory, a half century of getting along by going along. ...