The Projectionist
A man of failing reputation, Toss Raymond lives alone by the South Saskatchewan River, near the drought-ruined farm town of Mayford. It’s the summer of 1988, a year since Toss’s marriage went south, and he made a public spectacle of himself by thrashing the neighbour who he wrongly thought had cuckolded him. Now, as he finishes what might be his last year as a high school teacher and the school board gathers grounds for his dismissal, Toss has taken up with two newcomers in town, and neither association is likely to help him appear any more upright.
Here in his “summer of sobering first anniversaries,” in a place under siege from both drought and his friend Dewey’s dark inventions, Toss…
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March 21, 2006
MICHAEL HELM is the bestselling author of After James, a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, which was named a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and NOW magazine; Cities of Refuge, a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, longlisted for the Giller Prize, and named a Globe and Mail Book of the Year and a NOW magazine Top Ten of 2010; In the Place of Last Things, a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book; and The Projectionist, a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award. His writings on fiction, poetry, and photography have appeared in North American newspapers and magazines,…
After James
Michael Helm
Cities of Refuge
Michael Helm
The Projectionist
Michael Helm