Novelist, playwright, and musician Paul Quarrington passed away yesterday in his Toronto home at the age of 56.
His GG-winning novel Whale Music is one of the great - never mind Canadian - rock novels, depicting the life of a reclusive songwriter as he crafts his masterpiece.
After his diagnosis with lung cancer in May of last year, Quarrington set to touring with his band, the Pork Belly Futures, and continued undauntedly to write fiction, music, screenplays, and articles about his illness. The revisions to an anticipated memoir, Cigar Box Banjo, which will be out in May, were apparently finished only this past weekend. As one of the funniest and most casually profound writers in the country, he will be sorely missed.
Writer and musician Dave Bidini of the Rheostatics, who championed Quarrington's novel King Leary during the 2008 Canada Reads competition (it won), wrote movingly of Paul's life in the National Post.
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