Famished Lover Author:Alan Cumyn In Ramsay Crome, critically acclaimed author Alan Cumyn has created a man of intense appetite: for beauty; for human contact; for life and love. In this much anticipated follow-up to The Sojourn, Cumyn continues the story of Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite came home from the First World War. The horrors of his years in a German prisone... more »r of war camp continue to haunt him, as does the idealized memory of his long-lost sweetheart, his beautiful Margaret. Upon his return home to Montreal, he meets Lillian, a farm girl from the Eastern Townships and is drawn to her youthful vigour, her innocence, and yes, her beauty. These prove to be a potent elixir and they marry quickly. By the time she is pregnant with their son, she wants nothing more than to escape the dreary poverty of their Depression-era existence and flee back to the farm with her husband and child. She wants him to love only her, to open up about his war experiences, explain the paintings she found of a nude Margaret. In his post-traumatic world, Ramsay cannot share her faith and cannot explain about Margaret. A man who adores women and the beauty of the female form, he embarks on a passionate affair with a co-worker, until the time comes to choose between the present and the future. The Famished Lover is Alan Cumyn?s most mature and accomplished novel to date. It explores one man?s hunger for love and meaning in a harsh, unforgiving world and the beautiful, yet corrosive, nature of longing.« less