About
the Author
Ronald Wright is the internationally acclaimed author
of A Scientific Romance, winner of the Britain's
David Higham Prize for Fiction. His other major bestsellers
include Time Among the Maya and Stolen Continents,
and an acclaimed collection of travel pieces, Home
and Away. He lives in Port Hope, Ontario.
A Scientific
Romance was published in the New Face of Fiction
program in 1997.
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Books by
this author
What Is America? (Vintage Canada, August 2009)
What Is America? (Knopf Canada, August 2008)
Henderson's Spear (Vintage Canada, 2002)
Henderson's Spear (Knopf Canada, 2001)
A Scientific Romance (Vintage Canada, 1998)
A Scientific Romance (Knopf Canada, 1997)
Home and Away (Vintage Canada, 1994)
Stolen Continents (Penguin Canada, 1993)
Time Among the Maya (Penguin Books, 1990)
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Literary
Awards
- Winner
of The David Higham Fiction Prize for A Scientific Romance
- Sunday
Times (UK) Book of the Year, 1998 (A Scientific
Romance)
- New
York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year,
1998 (A Scientific Romance)
- Globe
and Mail Editor's Choice, 1998 (A Scientific
Romance)
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Book Reviews and Quotes
Praise for A Scientific Romance
"Wright has come up
with a treasure, a delightfully witty and suspenseful
fantasy that, being both romantic and scientific, justifies
the modern sense of its title well… The sheer pleasure
of reading A Scientific Romance - in the
rip-roaring tradition of the masters - Wells,
Verne, Kipling, Huxley, Orwell, Burgess - is reinforced
by the caustic humour that, quite unobtrusively, runs
through A Scientific Romance like a silver thread."
-Alberto Manguel, The Globe and Mail
"Compelling… Clearly
there is a powerful environmentalist message to the
novel, but Wright has constructed a narrative strong
enough to carry it without strain… [His] description
of a deserted London overgrown with tropical vegetation
is unforgettable… [Ronald Wright] brings to his construction
a very rich understanding of history and anthropology."
-Philip Marchand, The Toronto Star
"…the grown-up version of tripping into Narnia. … [A
Scientific Romance] is a deeply seductive and brilliantly
sustained piece of adventure writing, enthrallingly
descriptive, fragile, scary, easy to take seriously."
-The Observer
"… clever and
elegant … The beautiful heart of the book is not with
the details of time travel - mechanical or metaphysical
- but with its grief-stricken hero and an unforgettably
vivid picture of London…"
-The Mail on Sunday
Praise for Home and Away
"Magic… one of Canada's
most seasoned and eloquent travellers. Clear, supple
prose and a palpable sense of humane openness in the
face of foreign cultures… When Ronald Wright writes
of what he has seen and done, he shows what distinguishes
a mere tourist from an inspired traveller."
-Maclean's
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