A violin player obsesses over a former lover and his complicated relationship with his womanizing father.David Gilmour won the 2005 Governor-General's Award for Fiction and was nominated for the prestigious 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
His books have been translated into dozens of languages and positively received by William S. Burroughs, Northrop Frye, Playboy, People Magazine, The New York Times, Maclean's, National Post, The Washington Post, TheGlobe and Mail, Toronto Star, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal.
A Thing You'll Never Do lives up to Gilmour's reputation as an elegant prose stylist and provocative writer. The book reflects on middle-aged masculinity by juxtaposing obsession and lust for a former lover with the caretaking of an elderly father-building to a surprising ending when these twin narratives meet.
