Duet

By David Helwig and Peter Duffie

Duet, a vivid and comic account of a stubbornly unromantic romance, is the story of Carman, a retired Toronto policeman, who takes to wandering in the wake of his wife's death. On a whim, he rents a cottage north of Kingston from Norma, the cantankerous proprietor of a rural junk-shop. Sex and death haunt the undergrowth as Carman and Norma grumble and feud, and against the grain of their bad temper begin to create a precarious friendship. Duet is a beautiful novella, but one without prettiness; David Helwig demonstrates a subtle sense of humanity through his creation of two of the prickliest customers in Canadian fiction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889842477
• ISBN13: 9780889842472
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.8"