Motortherapy

“Always carry a bar of soap!” his father advises, as Allstair sets off to drive from Nairobi halfway across Africa in a secondhand Austin in the 1950s. “It wasn’t clear to me how you could fix a leak in the gas tank with soap,” Allstair reports, “but I never doubted that sort of instruction coming from him.” So begins the first tale in this sequel to Bill Schermbrucker’s well-received collection Chameleon and Other Stories.

AUTHOR

Bill Schermbrucker

Motortherapy (1993) is the third work of fiction from Bill Schermbrucker, a writer who has come into his prime. Born and raised in Africa, he now lives in North Vancouver, B.C. where he teaches English at Capilano College. He has been an editor of The Capilano Review, and is the author of Chameleon and Other Stories (1983). His novel, Mimosa (1988), won the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction at the 1988 BC Book Prizes.