As for Me and My Body
A Memoir of Sinclair Ross
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550223101
- Publish Date
- Mar 1997
- List Price
- $12.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554900053
- Publish Date
- Mar 1997
- List Price
- $7.95
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Offering an intimate portrait of the last years of Sinclair Ross's often beleaguered life, this elegant account of an artist in declinecrippled by Parkinson's Disease and a sense of failure, attracted to suicide and his own sexual revelationsleads readers to a new biographical reading of one of Canada's most acclaimed novels, As for Me and My House. As a homosexual, Sinclair Ross grew up behind his own false front on the prairies, developing after the war into a more cosmopolitan man than previously imagined.
About the author
Keath Fraser's stories and novellas have been reprinted in numerous Canadian and international anthologies. His essays on writing are reprinted in the anthologyHow Stories Mean(PQL, 1993). He is the author of two earlier acclaimed story collections, Taking Cover (Oberon, 1982) and Foreign Affairs (Stoddart, 1985). His novel, Popular Anatomy (PQL, 1995), won the 1996 Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. He has travelled extensively throughout the world and has edited the best selling international anthologies Bad Trips (Vintage, 1991) and Worst Journeys: The Picador Book of Travel (1992). He was born and raised in Vancouver, where he lives at present, and is a director of Canada India Village Aid (CIVA).
