Trevor Cole is a multiple-award winning magazine
journalist whose work
recently appeared in a 25-year retrospective of the best in Canadian
magazine writing. After an acclaimed stint as a senior writer
at the Globe
and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, he is now a regular contributor
to
Toronto Life and until recently wrote a fortnightly satirical
column for
Canadian Business magazine, which garnered two National Magazine
awards as
well as the 2002 Rogers Publishing award for best column. He lives
with his journalist wife, daughter and fluffy black dog in Hamilton.
His
novel, Norman Bray In The Performance of His Life
was sold to MacLelland & Stewart.
For years, stage actor Norman Bray has renounced all responsibility
in the name of his "art". Now, teetering on the edge
of financial ruin, and clinging to the faded light of his career,
Norman must answer to the bank, his adult children, and most of
all, to his own illusions about himself. Norman Bray
in the Performance of his Life is a darkly funny,
sharply observed debut novel about an out-of-work actor whose
life has caught up with him -- and he has only himself to blame.
"Cole deftly manipulates tone, diction, and
point of view to create a brilliant study ofo Norman's persecuted
artist persona and the peculiarly endearing person who hides behind
it. The narrative voice is agile and witty. ...Cole accomplishes
something extraordinary."
His
novel, Norman Bray In The Performance of His Life
was sold to MacLelland & Stewart.
