Fiction Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Moosehead Anthology 7, The
Moosemilk
- Publisher
- DC Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 1999
- Category
- Anthologies (multiple authors), General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919688520
- Publish Date
- Nov 1999
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Moosemilk, an old-time Canadian idiom meaning bootleg or homemade liquor, refers here to the variety and vintage of the work within these covers. Nine Moosehead Reviews and six Moosehead Anthologies saw publication between 1977 and 1999 ó a great store of spirits! Here is some of the best stuff, the most readable, memorable and intoxicating....
Mooseheads have been edited and produced from the beginning by Robert Allen and Steve Luxton, along with the many distillers, imbibers and runners who have inhabited or drifted through the lively writing scene of Montreal and the Eastern Townships. The selection in Moosemilk was made by writers reading writers. Thereís sex, death, farming, childhood and, of course, writing... always a connection to that vocation of pain and pleasure.
Critical Comment
ìAny reader of this collection cannot avoid being struck by its eclecticism.... Everything in it is of high quality and within each section we find a variety of styles and attitudes.... The anthology is recommended to anyone interested in contemporary writing.î
ó Canadian Book Review Annual, 2000
About the author
Keith Henderson has published five other novels with DC Books, The Restoration (1992), The Beekeeper (1990), The Roof Walkers (2013), Acqua Sacra (2016), and Sasquatch and the Green Sash (2018), political essays from when he was Quebec correspondent for the Financial Post (Staying Canadian,1997), as well as a prize-winning book of short stories, The Pagan Nuptials of Julia, 2006). He led the Equality Party during the separatist referendum of 1995, taught Canadian Literature at Vanier College for many years, has sat on numerous boards in Anglo-Quebec including ELAN and the AELAQ, and is currently President of The Special Committee for Canadian Unity. He is completing a critical autobiography with special focus on the works of Edith Wharton.
