Quintet - Softcover

Brown, Douglas A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552639975 ISBN 13: 9781552639979

Publisher: Key Porter Books, 2008

Synopsis

Adrian, Rory, and Cameron are identical triplets summoned home by the sudden death of their parents. Inseparable in youth, they’ve drifted apart as adults, and after the funeral they agree to keep in touch through journals in which each recounts the steps that led him away from the other two. At every critical step looms the shadow of Talbot, the oldest brother, and the secrets he’s hoarded for a generation. This haunting novel about shifting family dynamics recalls the work of Anne Tyler.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas Arthur Brown is the author of five books. The Globe and Mail called his novel, Quintet, a masterfully written book. It was the recipient of the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize, and short-listed for the Dartmouth Book Award.

The Magic Compass - a children's Christmas advent book - is part of The Atlantic Collection, a project by the Nova Scotia Department of Education that placed the book in every elementary school in Nova Scotia.

Douglas won a Nova Scotia Established Artist Recognition Award in 2009 sponsored by the Nova Scotia Arts and Culture Partnership, NS Department of Culture. His bio was included in the 2010 edition of the Canadian Who's Who directory (University of Toronto Press.) He was awarded The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for his contribution to Canadian culture.

Douglas' short stories have appeared in various literary magazines including Matrix Magazine, B&A, Pottersfield Portfolio and his work is included in four anthologies: Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction; Life's Beginnings, a Danish anthology of fiction challenging ethics in modern society; Undercurrents, a collection of speculative fiction; and Salt Lines, a collection of essays on writing by Nova Scotia writers. His short story Fifty Bucks (under the title Macedon) was short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards. His full-length play, The Weaverbird, was a finalist in the Canadian Playwriting Competition hosted by Theatre BC and BRAVO.

Douglas was also the publisher and managing editor of the Canadian literary magazine, Pottersfield Portfolio for several years.
 
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Review:

It is the writer who has made this a successful novel. Quintet is masterfully written ... a powerful and fascinating novel.
The Globe & Mail

Impressive depths of emotion ... Quintet captures the difficulties of adult sibling relationships, and their tendency to drift, better than any other novel I can think of.
Quill & Quire 

Storytellers like Douglas Arthur Brown are a breed apart.
X-tra.ca

Brown's book could be seen as a testament to brothers baring their souls, something that, it seems to me, is not that common, in either fiction or real life.
 Atlantic Books Today

About this edition

• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1552639975
• ISBN 13: 9781552639979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 303