Clyde

David Helwig

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Clyde

  Author:   David Helwig    
  Publisher:  Bunim & Bannigan

Betrayed by his oldest friend, a boyhood companion, his gingerly constructed career at stake, Clyde Bryanton, a property developer and Ottawa political consultant, unpeels layers and layers of memory, a half century of getting along by going along. Fatherless, his sire a casualty of the Dieppe raid, Clyde is as baffled by the emotions that occasionally sound from his depths as he is by his mentors, banker and the senator who manipulate money and power in a small Canadian city. A stranger even to his wife, who dubs him ‘Silent Joe,’ he navigates social, familial, political and commercial obligations with the same cool skills he exhibits on the golf courses that weave in and out of the fabric of his life. The darkest of secrets become no more to Clyde than the bunkers and sand traps he avoids with his selections of irons as he gambles a mysterious five thousand dollars against access to the wife of an envied son of privilege. This latest novel by distinguished Canadian author David Helwig, describes a North America, whether Canada or the United States, of eyes on the ground and noses to the grindstone, of business as politics and politics as business, of kindness and malice and nameless fear. Clyde, is an incisive portrait of the generation that came of age in the 1960s, and of the culture that came to dominate the second half of the twentieth century.

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ISBN associated with this title: 9781933480367
Item BU0010
PublisherBunim & Bannigan
PublisherBunim & Bannigan
Published on January 14 2014
Language eng
Pages 259
Format Paperback
Dimensions9.25(in) x 6.25(in)
Shipping weight515(g)
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Poet, novelist and essayist, David Helwig was born and raised in Toronto, and is the author of more than forty books in all genres. He is the recipient of the Belmont Award for short story, the CBC Poetry Prize, and the Atlantic Poetry Award. He lives in the Canadian Maritime province of Prince Edward Island.