Author Description

When High Water Chants was first published in 1977, The Globeand Mail praised it as "... a tour de force by a writer of promise.. " Since then Trevor Ferguson has established himself as a gifted novelist, a writer of wild, poetic stories, often darkly funny, and rich in meaning and myth. With every book his reputation and audience grows. The time is right, then, for a reissue of Trevor Ferguson's debut novel. High Water Chants, a fiercely exhilarating story about the nature of guilt, innocence and the truths of the past, set against a brutal fight for an unspoiled coastal island. With one of the most disturbing and suspenseful chase scenes through a rugged wilderness that has ever been chronicled, High Water Chants is a passionate and primeval read.