Notes Home from a Prodigal Son

David E. Kemp, a former drama professor at Queen’s University, is the
author of The Pleasures and Treasures of the United Kingdom.

Douglas Glover is the author of three collections of short stories and
three novels, including the critically acclaimed The Life and Times of
Captain N. In this collection of essays, lectures, dialogues, and
memoirs, we trace Glover’s life through his work as we learn about his
Loyalist ancestors, the Ontario tobacco farm where he grew up, and his
miscellaneous enterprises as a philosophy student, newspaperman,
long-distance runner, and expatriate writer. Glover’s fascination with
language shines through the collection, as does his love of Canada—its
history, art, politics, and self-questioning identity. The diversity of
emotion, taste, and ideology displayed in Notes Home from a Prodigal Son
makes for exhilarating reading.