Young, impressionable, twenty-year-old Walter Taylor flees his suburban home in search of freedom and adventure and stumbles into more than he bargained for. Set in a chaotic bee-farm at the height of the 1960s, home to a bohemian, European-born artist and his mistresses, The Beekeeper is filled with allusion, irony, and high humour, yet sets in stark relief the fund of violence and igrance that underlay the romantic dreams of the 1960s. Henderson has written a hilarious satirical portrait of the last generation's counter-culture movement, as well as an original and thought-provoking assessment that what produced this rebellion was to a large measure transplanted European ideas originating t only in the last century but beyond.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
DC Books,Canada
ISBN-10
0919688217
ISBN-13
9780919688216
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113847460
Product Key Features
Author
Keith Henderson
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Montreal, QC
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
Keith Henderson was born in Montreal. Educated at McGill, Concordia, and the University of Toronto, he teaches English at Vanier College in Montreal. He was elected leader of Quebec's Equality Party in 1993. He was an intervener in the historic 1998 Supreme Court of Canada decision of unilateral declarations of independence.