Once the driving force behind the Howl Brothers band, Desmond Howell's plans to finish his masterpiece--the Whale Music symphony--are threatened by his brother's suicide, his mother's theft of a musical tape, and the arrival of an escapee from an institution
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Des Howell is a former rock 'n' roll star who never leaves his secluded oceanfront mansion. Naked, rich and fabulously deranged, he subsists on a steady diet of whiskey, pharmaceuticals and jelly doughnuts and occasionally works on his masterpiece, "Whale Music." One day, upon awakening from his usual drunken stupor, Des discovers on his sofa a young alien from the faraway universe of Toronto. This girl has made the trek to Des' hideaway because she believes in the "Whale Music" and she's crazy enough to think that Des can make a comeback hit with his mad magnum opus--
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About the Author:
The author of eight novels, Paul Quarrington is also a musician, an award-winning screenwriter, a filmmaker, a playwright and an acclaimed non-fiction writer. He won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for Whale Music in 1989 and the Stephen Leacock Medal the year before for King Leary.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 038526772X
- ISBN 13 9780385267724
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages226
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