Fred Taylor: Brother in the Shadows 9780773575097
John Virtue uncovers the dynamics of a prominent Ottawa family and reveals the divergent paths of brothers E.P. and Fred
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English Pages 320 [315] Year 2008
Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1 I remember many spankings with a flat-backed wooden-handled hairbrush
2 The moment you realize that you are enjoying yourself, you feel guilty
3 He never seriously bothered or teased me again
4 You must be yellow
5 I had been desperately lonely
6 I am heading towards unhappiness
7 There are freaks in every family
8 I did not think of falling in love with her
9 The Party was happy to find a WASP like Fred Taylor
10 I am unwilling to exchange my brush for a bayonet
11 You must never use my name to further your affairs
12 Thinks me a crackpot
13 He really didn't like his own children
14 During the last fifteen years you have not been self-supporting
15 She says that she does not love me
16 There will be no more money from me now that you are an avowed Communist
17 She genuinely believes in my potential as a painter
18 You became for me a surrogate father
19 I earned 60 per cent and had an unearned income of 40 per cent
20 I'd much prefer to be in Canada
21 I have not enjoyed the anonymity I cherished
22 I'm going to knock you out
23 I do not believe that I constitute any species of threat
24 How's the hunting, Fred?
25 Fred was the kindest, gentlest, most encouraging, most supportive person
26 I am still deeply in love with you
27 I'm going to be married very soon
28 He'd planned his suicide ever since Hemingway killed himself
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
