Bøger af Tom Henighan

The Fire Lessons, Tom Henighan's third book of poetry, is a work of art that can be enjoyed on many levels. Echoes of ballads, nursery rhymes, the one-breath note of haiku, the jagged, startling challenge of contemporary verse, carry the reader into new perspectives of contemporary angst and joy. These poems, a distillation of a life's experiences, thoughts, and profound engagements with the arts, take the chaos of everyday life and reveal to us the mystery and the music that lie beneath.

Love and loneliness, the quest for family happiness and sexual fulfillment, odd encounters and comical miscalculations-these stories move between city and country and display a wide range of men, women and children in search of joy, pleasure, and a success in life that often seems just out of reach. Less People in love (Blue Menus, Prime Time), cheating spouses (Storm Warnings, Intruders, Blue Menus), people near the breaking point ( Intruders, Famine, Blue Menus, Visiting Mother), women looking for peace of mind, or God, or finding miracles in daily life (Visiting Mother, Confirmation, The Well), baffled country folk (Famine, The House, The Acrobats), kids caught up in comic or sad predicaments (Enemies of Culture, The Acrobats), people close to violence, or over the edge (At Approximately Three PM, Hotel Paradise, Famine) . . . These dramatic stories catch moments of real life in familiar settings of city or country. The writer reaches out with sympathy and insight, depicting men, women, and children, both simple and complex, who, like all of us, are searching for happiness in a daunting world. As one reviewer noted: "Tom Henighan . . . seems to take his inspiration from all points of the imaginative compass. Henighan's use of the short story form . . . shows great versatility [and] the thematic concerns of these stories are also wide-ranging." The author has published some twenty books in print form, including short fiction, with publishers in the U.S., Canada, and Britain.

Born in Manitoba of Icelandic parents, Vilhjalmur Stefansson (18791962) became one of Canada's most famous and controversial Arctic explorers. After graduate studies in anthropology at Harvard University, Stefansson lived with and studied Inuit in the

A summer holiday in a remote corner of Ontario's Rideau Lakes turns into a nightmare when Chip and Lee are drawn into a complex web of past and present; they struggle to make sense of these ancient mysteries, aided by a visiting anthropologist and a beautiful young woman who lives on an island with her reclusive and powerful grandfather.

In 2099, North America is in chaos after years of war and ecological destruction. When a motorcycle gang attacks, Toby travels across the countryside to save his father.

Tom, a shy high school student, finds himself the only one standing up against a corrupt organization with an agenda of genetic experimentation on his classmates.

In Quebec City, deadly nightshade means murder. Police, RCMP, and a mysterious FBI agent converge on an important scientific conference concerning the genetic manipulation of trees. Sam Montcalm, a despised "bedroom snooper" from Ottawa, follows the trail of murder back to Canada's capital.

Fiction by Tom Heinighan.

Tom Henighan's numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry include The Maclean's Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture, The Well of Time, and the YA novel Viking Quest (2001). He lives in Ottawa, and teaches at Carleton University.

Natural Space In Literature: Imagination and Environment in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fiction and Poetry.