Losing Shepherd
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- Signature Editions
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2022
- Subjects
- Friendship, Literary
- Categories
- Author lives in British Columbia , Author lives in British Columbia
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- 9781773240978
- Publish Date
- Nov 2022
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Description
Canadian literary star Gordon Bridge is delighted with his celebrity, his family, and his bond with fellow writer Taylor Shepherd. But when Bridge publishes a scathing review of Shepherd's new novel, demonstrating how true critical insight is unswayed by personal loyalty, his hubris destroys the friendship, and his world begins to crumble.
Something strange emerges out of Bridge's pain: an old-fashioned sonnet sequence, weirdly modern in content, as it focuses on CBC radio hosts. Its success, driven by every CBC arts show in the country, only deepens Bridge's guilt and accelerates a crippling series of side-effects. Finally, he starts a memoir, a sometimes hilarious, but urgent attempt to come to terms with his past and reshape his present. The result, Losing Shepherd, is a testament to literature and also to friendship, its power to lift and its ability to destroy.
About the author
Paul Headrick’s first novel, That Tune Clutches My Heart, was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Prize—the BC Book Prize for Fiction. The Doctrine of Affections, a short story collection unified by the theme of music, was a finalist for an Alberta Book Award. Stories from that book appeared in The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review, Event, and The Journey Prize Anthology.
Paul's literary studies took him to Montreal, Toronto, and London, England before he resettled in his hometown of Vancouver. He taught English literature and creative writing at Langara College, as well as giving short story workshops at writers' festivals from Denman Island, BC, to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Paul currently teaches a graduate workshop on novel and memoir writing with Simon Fraser University's Writers' Studio.