DAVID MACFARLANE's family memoir, The Danger Tree, was described by Christopher Hitchens as "one of the finest and most intriguing miniature elegies that I have read in many a year." Macfarlane's novel Summer Gone was short-listed for the Giller Prize. Based on The Danger Tree, "The Door You Came In," a two-man show (co-written and performed with Douglas Cameron), has been produced to acclaim from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Stratford, Ontario. Macfarlane lives in Toronto with his wife, the designer Janice Lindsay.
"David Macfarlane's haunting new memoir Likeness . . . unfolds in a
series of short musings, most of them only a few pages in length,
which range freely over the span of decades, encompassing three
lives. . . . Likeness is a book of considerable joy, and of
staggering loss, one which avoids easy sentimentality in favour of
genuine—and crushing—emotion." —Toronto Star
"A gifted and admired writer across genres . . . Macfarlane's works
have always focused on memory and family. That long-standing theme
is understandably far more sorrowful in Likeness. Born out of the
fatal illness of Macfarlane's 29-year-old son, Blake, in 2018, it
conveys grief in heartbreaking, often quietly stunning, prose. . .
. There is an ache in Likeness that cuts as deeply as it does
because of the beauty of its expression." —Maclean's
"Pleasing. . . . David Macfarlane['s] sense of craftsmanship
is visible on every page." —Literary Review of Canada
"Beautifully wrought. . . . [Macfarlane] displays creative
boldness. . . . There are moments that strike deep, especially
if the reader is a parent." —Everything Zoomer
"Likeness is a memoir by a very fine writer, perfectly crafted . .
. a book about what it is that makes a family, a marriage, a life.
It is about ageing and who we become over the years of our life.
About what it is, for all of us, to be." —Parry Sound North
Star
"As soon as you turn the first page into David Macfarlane's
Likeness, you are gone, deep into the nest of his effortless
story-telling, as the story moves from a painting to a town to a
father to a son, from memory to grief and back again, indelibly
mapping as it goes the uncountable but always surprising places and
people and histories that make us not just who we are, but that
make us each other. An unforgettable book." —Ian Brown,
author of Sixty
"Likeness is terrific. It's about the before and after of losing a
son, but the before and after happen simultaneously, that's the
miracle of the book. David Macfarlane has found a new form made of
shards and broken pieces, and it’s like music you’ve never heard
before." —Elizabeth Hay, author of All Things Consoled
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