Four Days
By (Author) John Buell
By (author) Trevor Ferguson
Vehicule Press
Vehicule Press
7th June 2019
Canada
General
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
162
Width 114mm, Height 177mm, Spine 15mm
136g
In Four Days, an orphaned boy watches as his older brother and idol graduates from petty thievery into big-league crime. A bank heist goes awry, leaving loose threads and dangerous links back to the brothers. Following instructions, the boy leaves the city with the stolen money and travels to a rendezvous point in a mountain vacation resort. What he doesnt know is that he is on his own, his brother will not show upand the underworld is after him. Buells second novel, Four Dayswas first published in 1962 by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy in the United States and Macmillan in the UK.
John Buell (1927-2013) was a lifelong resident of Montreal, where he taught English and Communication Studies at Concordia University. Upon his retirement in 1987, he was made professor emeritus. Buell's five novels--The Pyx (1959), Four Days (1962), The Shrewsdale Exit (1972), Playground (1976), and A Lot to Make Up For (1990)--were lauded by Edmund Wilson, amongst other prominent critics. Three of Buell's novels have been made into feature films. Trevor Ferguson is the author of seven novels under his own name and six under his pseudonym, John Farrow. One of his novels, The Timekeeper, became a feature film. His most recent title is Perish the Day. He lives in Hudson, Quebec.