Book by Smith Ray
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"The Man Who Loved Jane Austen" is a slow, inexorable slide into pain and loss. What makes following this decline worthwhile is Smith's exacting prose. He captures Montreal in all its beauty and turmoil, he captures academic life and family life.'
"The Man Who Loved Jane Austen" is a slow, inexorable slide into pain and loss. What makes following this decline worthwhile is Smith's exacting prose. He captures Montreal in all its beauty and turmoil, he captures academic life and family life.'
What makes "The Man Who Loved Jane Austen" Smith's best work is the success with which he subordinates his formal preoccupations to his characters and to his story which, in its propulsive inevitability, is no less heartwrenching and, ultimately, devastating.'
'"The Man Who Loved Jane Austen" is a slow, inexorable slide into pain and loss. What makes following this decline worthwhile is Smith's exacting prose. He captures Montreal in all its beauty and turmoil, he captures academic life and family life.'
'What makes "The Man Who Loved Jane Austen" Smith's best work is the success with which he subordinates his formal preoccupations to his characters and to his story which, in its propulsive inevitability, is no less heartwrenching and, ultimately, devastating.'
What makes "The Man Who Loved Jane Austen" Smith's best work is the success with which he subordinates his formal preoccupations to his characters and to his story which, in its propulsive inevitability, is no less heartwrenching and, ultimately, devastating.'--Robert Reid "Kitchener Waterloo Record "
This is a novel worth reading for the human story at its core. Frank might be an infuriatingly flawed Everyman, but his attempt to keep his precarious world together rings true.'--Ian McGillis "The Montreal Gazette "
After fictional excursions abroad to Germany, France, Scotland, Italy, Africa, and Australia, and back to the 1920s, the nineteenth century, and the Middle Ages, Ray Smith has come home to English Montreal in the 1990s. The Man Who Loved Jane Austen is a penetrating story of a Montreal with only the lingering effervescence of its past, a Montreal of loss, or regret, of sadness. A Montreal where nationalism corrodes every event, every relationship, every soul. A Montreal of lies and betrayal.
Smith's work combines astonishing inventiveness with a warm and gregarious humanity. His first book, Cape Breton is the Thought Control Centre of Canada (1969, reissued by The Porcupine's Quill in 1989), burst upon a largely uncomprehending world in an explosion of post-modernist experimentation and whimsy. The novel, Lord Nelson Tavern (1974) is an odyssey of love and friendship; it conceals its equally innovative structures behind a surface reality of poignant characters and memorable incidents. Smith again extended his range with Century (1986), a novel which explores the horrors and beauties of the modern world. His most recent book, A Night at the Opera (The Porcupine's Quill, 1992), is an exploration of the preposterous German city of Waltherrott, a delightful cavalcade of fools and knaves, grouches and maniacs, frumps and tarts, heroes and clowns.
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Librería: Harbor Books LLC, Old Saybrook, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Illustrated card covers, 233pp contnets clean and unmarked. Nº de ref. del artículo: 008925
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Librería: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Reino Unido
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Librería: The Porcupine's Quill, Erin, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Original printed wraps. 234 pp. Octavo. fter fictional excursions abroad to Germany, France, Scotland, Italy, Africa, and Australia, and back to the 1920s, the nineteenth century, and the Middle Ages, Ray Smith has come home to English Montreal in the 1990s. The Man Who Loved Jane Austen is a penetrating story of a Montreal with only the lingering effervescence of its past, a Montreal of loss, or regret, of sadness. A Montreal where nationalism corrodes every event, every relationship, every soul. A Montreal of lies and betrayal. Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780889842021
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Librería: The Next Page, Calgary, AB, Canada
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition 1999, First printing. Signed, Inscribed on Title page. Some notations in pen & pencil. Nº de ref. del artículo: 978088984202C
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Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 233 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. Nº de ref. del artículo: 0889842027
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