A Dropped Glove in Regent Street

Overview

Provocative prose from one of Canada's top writers

A collection spanning the career of Don Coles, this compilation of personal essays and reviews combines published prose with vital new pieces that explore the genres of biography and translation. Summing up decades of reading and adventurous travel while investigating the influences on his writing, this assemblage presents Coles as one of Canada’s most incisive literary critics, revealing his unconventional assessments of Graham Greene, Thomas Mann, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Robert Frost, Albert Camus, George Orwell, and many others. Passionate and progressive, the book is at once a personal memoir and discriminating literary criticism.

Reviews

"Coles writes so elegantly and so convincingly that we would follow him anywhere." â€â€ÂLiterary Review of Canada

Author Biography

Don Coles is an award-winning poet and novelist. Formerly a professor at York University, he is the author of Doctor Bloom's Story, Forests of the Medieval World, and Kurgan. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.