Century

by Ray Smith

Overview

Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle on 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. One of the most far-reaching novels ever published in Canada.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926845609
Publisher:	Biblioasis
Publication date:	10/15/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	465 KB

About the Author

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, and most recently, The Flush of Victory: Jack Bottomly Among the Virgins, all published by Biblioasis.

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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

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