1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner
![Whale Music](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580941518-60265-image-3.jpg)
Whale Music
Paul Quarrington
Des Howell is a former rock n roll star who never leaves his secluded oceanfront mansion. Naked, rich and fabulously deranged, he subsists on a steady diet of whiskey, pharmaceuticals and jelly doughnuts and occasionally works on his masterpiece, “Whale …
1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Shortlist
![A View from the Roof](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580845521-58790-image-3.jpg)
A View from the Roof
Helen Weinzweig
![The Golden Thread](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581015101-5086-image-3.jpg)