“Williamson’s talent for breathing life into ordinary people with extraordinary skill is evident in Weddings.”

— Toronto Star

“A layered wedding cake of a novel that is well-made and bittersweet.”

— Globe and Mail

“A fine novel, thriller meets screwball comedy with a dash of Mary McCarthy thrown in.”

— National Post

“… an optimistic novel, well-written throughout and populated with delightfully idiosyncratic characters.”

— Canadian Book Review Annual

“Weddings is a wonderful book, funny and often touching - it tugs in an extraordinary way on one’s own memories of weddings.”

— Carol Shields

by Dave Williamson

JOURNEYING THROUGH SEVERAL DECADES and three generations, Weddings explores the elusive nature of commitment as it plays out amongst a group of family and friends. Their subtle intimacies and emotional collisions are brought to vivid life with Williamson’s strong story-telling and vital, well-drawn characters

Humour and pathos permeate this sensitively tuned novel, which employs the wedding — from the subverted innocence of the 1950s to the all-or-nothing turbulence of the 1970s to the ironic complexities of the 1990s — as a renewable symbol of social change.

About the Author
Dave Williamson has published four novels, a memoir Author! Author!, and a collection of short stories, as well as book reviews, plays, and an anthology of Canadian and U.S. fiction. He is past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada and is Dean of Applied Arts at Red River College in Winnipeg.