The Welsher - Hardcover

Thomas, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0919001394 ISBN 13: 9780919001398

Publisher: Pottersfield Press, 1987

Synopsis

Set in Wales and New Brunswick, this darkly comic novel chronicles the mishaps, mayhem, compulsive slander, and dire straits experienced by one Anthony Watkins, who cannot call his life his own. Watkins finds himself re-written by the fictions of a hanged man and a team of Welsh conspirators led by Morgan U. Price, ageless village elder, assisted by Watkins' parents, his own worthy spouse, his cousin's beautiful and fertile wife, Dr. Daniel Morgan, that disgrace to medicine, and the massed choristers of Glantawe, where all truths are possible and most are at least attempted. Yet Watkins, too, is part of what he suffers: fated to delude, invent, re-live his delirium and folly, accept as gospel the story of the hour. What he must endure is less an identity crisis than a carnival of mortal dreams.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Thomas is the author of seven books, including the award-winning Stranger in a Strange Land, about the first Welsh settlements in Canada. A resident of Fredericton, a former professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, and the former managing editor of Goose Lane Editions, he now lives in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pottersfield Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0919001394
• ISBN 13: 9780919001398
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166