Sparrow Nights

After she leaves you, how bad can it get? An exhilarating novel of erotic and psychotic extremes from one of Canada's best novelists.

Everyone would agree that Darius Halloway is the most civilized of men—a professor of French literature, a connoisseur of ideas and women and wine, a perfect guest at life's dinner party. Darius himself would agree—that is, he would until Emma, waifish and insatiable Emma, leaves her empty clothes hangers rattling in his closet and walks out the door.

For a little while, it's not so bad. He's in shock. He thinks she must come back. And other women find his melancholy quite compelling. But then the sparrows of insomnia start picking at the inside of his skull. And life's little aggravating moments seem to require him to seek direct retaliation. And all his smoothness and cleverness is soon directed toward wreaking the most elaborate revenge...and getting away with it. Until the ultimate revenge arises, and there he is, in the most damning of situations, with his nerves on fire and his heart in his throat...and finally not thinking of Emma.

Author Biography: David Gilmour is a novelist who's earned the praise of literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and of publications as diverse as the New York Times and People magazine. His previous novel, Lost Between Houses, was a national best seller in Canada and was shortlisted for the prestigious Trillium Book Award. He lives in Toronto.