I Made a Promise I Could Not Keep: Speculative Essays

Author:   David Homel
Publisher:   Linda Leith Publishing
ISBN:  

9781773901893


Pages:   100
Publication Date:   14 March 2026
Format:   Paperback
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I Made a Promise I Could Not Keep: Speculative Essays


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Author:   David Homel
Publisher:   Linda Leith Publishing
Imprint:   Linda Leith Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.140kg
ISBN:  

9781773901893


ISBN 10:   1773901893
Pages:   100
Publication Date:   14 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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""A writer writing about writers' broken promises and lies ought to be careful. And that, if I may say, is a promise.""


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David Homel was born in Chicago in 1952 and left the city in 1970 for Paris, living in Europe the next few years on odd jobs. He has published ten novels, from Electrical Storms (1988) to The Teardown, which won the Paragraph Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2019, and most recently, Private Number (2025). He has also written young adult fiction with Marie-Louise Gay, directed documentary films, worked in TV production, been a literary translator, journalist, and creative writing teacher. He has translated four books for Linda Leith Publishing: Bitter Rose (2015), The Last Bullet Is For You (2016), Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa (2017) and Taximan (2018). Lunging into the Underbrush (2021), also with LLP, was his first book of non-fiction. He lives in Montreal.

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