Fury

Joan McGrath is a Toronto Board of Education library consultant.

Readers of David Watmough’s earlier stories of the boyhood and youth of Davey Bryant in Love and the Waiting Game will welcome this happy reunion with an older, more mature, but still readily recognizable Davey. From the opening account of his school days in London’s East End, and his first horrified encounter with Mosley’s Fascists, to reflective middle age on a deserted British Columbian beach some thirty years later, Davey once again is like a photographic image coming gradually into perfect focus, so much so that it is difficult to accept Davey as fiction; he has somehow stereoptically melded with David, the real person and gifted artist. (Familiarity with the earlier title, while it may add a dimension to the reader’s enjoyment, is not a prerequisite for full appreciation of this quite independent work.)