Ebook {Epub PDF} A Perfect Night to Go to China by David Gilmour

A Perfect Night to Go to China. by David Gilmour. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. In recent years, it’s become standard practice for novelists to adopt pop psychology’s five-stage model of grieving when writing about trauma. But as Toronto author and TV arts presenter David Gilmour illustrates in his new novel, there are still some writers willing to put up a modicum of resistance to the Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.  · A Perfect Night to Go to China / By David Gilmour. It's a curious world we live in, no doubt about it. The Governor General's Literary Awards, Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. Written in the clear, elegant prose Gilmour is known for, A Perfect Night to Go to China is a completely absorbing and original work of fiction. It sets up a harrowing premise and doesn't let /5(12).

In he won the Governor General's Award for fiction with A Perfect Night to Go to China, a harrowing account of a man's life destroyed by a simple bad decision which leads to the. After winning the Governor General's Literary Award in for his sixth novel, A Perfect Night to Go to China, David Gilmour published a memoir in In The Film Club, he chronicles his. David Gilmour's Governor General's Award winning novel A Perfect Night to Go to China brought him to the bookshelves of a lot of people who have never heard of him. He was the well known host of Gilmour on the Arts on CBC for many years. This novel is really the masterpiece of Gilmour's career to date.

A Perfect Night to Go to China springs from one of the most potentially lurid of personal tragedies: the abduction of a child. A Gilmour-like TV host, Roman, steps out of his house for a quick late-night drink and returns 15 minutes later to find that his son has disappeared from his bedroom without a trace. David Gilmour’s Governor General’s Award winning novel A Perfect Night to Go to China brought him to the bookshelves of a lot of people who have never heard of him. He was the well known host of Gilmour on the Arts on CBC for many years. This novel is really the masterpiece of Gilmour’s career to date. A Perfect Night to Go to China Thomas Allen Publishers ISBN: March This astonishing novel – unlike anything Gilmour has ever written before – begins with a parent’s worst nightmare: the disappearance of a child.