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Restaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything.
Teo’s life as a Paris brasserie apprentice is filled with challenges and triumphs, as well as all the regular abuses of slammed commercial kitchens. Still, he rises through the ranks, eventually returning to his hometown of Vancouver to open Rue Véron, a French restaurant that goes on to become a sensation. His second restaurant, Orinoco, is also successful. But on the cusp of opening his third, a news story breaks filled with troubling accusations against Rue Véron’s popular executive chef, Frankie.
The media firestorm and subsequent public relations disaster threaten to destroy Teo’s empire, as well as his own personal life. And when the compounding consequences lead to unimaginable tragedy, Teo is left to question the impact of both individual action and people acting in great numbers.
Timothy Taylor dishes up a pot-au-feu of fine dining and complicated relationships, seasoned with the bitter taste of abuse in the restaurant world.
The Rise And Fall Of Magic Wolf is a staggering work, sprawling and real and romantic and bittersweet.
The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf is ambitious, intimate, and wise, and a surprisingly beautiful and ultimately optimistic story about deeply flawed, authentic humans. Timothy Taylor is one of the very best writers working today.
Timothy Taylor is a bestselling, award-winning novelist and journalist. His work has been a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and has won or been shortlisted for over twenty magazine awards. Taylor lives in Vancouver.