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list price: $19.95

edition:Paperback

category: Fiction

published: Feb 2018

ISBN:9780889844193

publisher: Porcupine's Quill

The House on Major Street

by Leon Rooke

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list price: $19.95

edition:Paperback

category: Fiction

published: Feb 2018

ISBN:9780889844193

publisher: Porcupine's Quill

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Populated by media personalities, literary characters, three-legged deer-like creatures and an array of idiosyncratic Toronto neighbours, The House on Major Street is an internal and external picaresque tale that begins with a dramatic bicycle accident and explores, along the way, the blurred boundaries between the stories we read, the stories we tell and the stories we live.

About the Author

Leon Rooke is the author of seven novels, including Shakespeare's Dog which won the 1993 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Other major awards he has received include The W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Canada-Australia Literary Prize, and the CBC Fiction Prize. He has published over 300 short stories, as well as poetry and plays, and is the founder of The Eden Mills Literary Festival.

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Editorial Review

[On appearing as a character in The House on Major Street:]

'Leon flatters me and of course I'm delighted to be so used by a writer I respect so much. Steve Temple will feel the same I'm sure. Richard Landon, sadly gone now, would be equally flattered by Leon's very accurate picture of his rapacity-except he would sneer at Leon and goad him by saying the Fisher ''already has three copies of it''.

'I shall inquire of Leon, next time I see him, just what he means by ''dishevelled'' in reference to myself. He only sees me in places where drinking occurs, not in my professional guise where like all greedy dealers I'm always slick and charming. Looks like it's to be a must-read book.

— David Mason, proprietor, David Mason Books