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Century
Ray Smith
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Description for Century
Paperback. Terrifying, powerful, slashing and satiric Century remains the most important work of Ray Smith's oeuvre. Num Pages: 168 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 242.
The fourth title in Biblioasis's Renditions Series, Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle of the Seymour family that moves from Austria, America and Africa, through Edinburgh and Venice, and then back through the Paris of the Belle Epoque and forward to 1923 Germany. Terrifying, powerful, slashing and satiric, yet at the same time musical and wonder-filled, Century remains the most important work of Ray Smith's ouevre, and one of the most impressive, and far-reaching novels ever published in Canada.
The fourth title in Biblioasis's Renditions Series, Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle of the Seymour family that moves from Austria, America and Africa, through Edinburgh and Venice, and then back through the Paris of the Belle Epoque and forward to 1923 Germany. Terrifying, powerful, slashing and satiric, yet at the same time musical and wonder-filled, Century remains the most important work of Ray Smith's ouevre, and one of the most impressive, and far-reaching novels ever published in Canada.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781897231517
SKU
V9781897231517
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About Ray Smith
Ray Smith: A native of Mabou, Cape Breton, to which he has returned, Ray Smith lived in Montreal for forty years, where he taught English literature at Dawson College. He is the author of, among others, A Night at the Opera (winner of the 1992 Qspell Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction), Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada, Century, ... Read more
Reviews for Century
"The various pieces in Century, with their echoes and reverberations, their layers of images and ideas, resemble the prose equivalent of a symphony."
Steven Beattie "Though Century is doubly complicated in that its parts are so much apart, and yet this makes the relationships between them all the more remarkable."
Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This
Steven Beattie "Though Century is doubly complicated in that its parts are so much apart, and yet this makes the relationships between them all the more remarkable."
Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This