NOVEMBER 11, 2009

IN ANOTHER LIFE

WINNER OF THE 2009 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR HIGH ACHIEVEMENT IN LITERARY ARTS

In Another Life. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-9686034-8-2. Lion's Head Press. 2009. $25.

In Another Life is a work of great love. It's a beautifully wrought story, tragic, poignant and full of rich detail. It's just masterful." — ROBERT LECKER

"I really enjoyed it. I haven't read a novel in two sittings in a long time. It's subtle, complex and has a wonderful comic/tragic feeling." — SHELDON CURRIE

"You don't come across a book like this very often. For me it was un-put-down-able. It's one goddamn great piece of work." — LOUIS CORMIER

In Another Life is heart-warming and heart-wrenching all at once. It's the real deal, a genuine masterpiece of storytelling, sadly beautiful, and perhaps Fraser's finest work to date." — STEPHEN CLARE, The Book Club, Halifax

"I can't find words to describe just how extraordinary I think this novel is... It's been a long time since I've read a book that really gets inside a man's head. It's a triumph in making characters come alive (I fell deeply in love with Corinne!). It's a great Canadian novel." — PHILIP DESJARDINS

"A masterfully crafted novel set against the plush Miramichi River region of the 1950's and 1960's. Wily Fredericton scribe Raymond Fraser proves again why he is one of Atlantic Canada's finest writers with the beautiful and haunting tragic-comedy of one boy's rise to prominence in his community and his slow descent into the throes of alcoholism. In Another Life is a powerful and poignant story that will capture the minds and hearts of readers. Think Catcher in the Rye meets Hemingway and Bukowski." — LEAP MAGAZINE

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TO ORDER BOOKS:

For a personally inscribed copy of this (or any of the books displayed below) email Raymond Fraser at:

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Include your mailing address and your order will be filled in a day or two, and if you're happy with the book(s) send a cheque payable to Raymond Fraser. A stamped addressed envelope will be enclosed for your convenience -- simply toss the cheque in and send it on it's way. If you'd like the book signed to someone other than yourself, or simply autographed, please specify.

UPDATED MARCH 20, 2009

The Grumpy Man features 23 new stories and the definitive version of the author's classic novella, The Quebec Prison.
Published by Lion's Head Press, November, 2008. $20.
http://lionsheadpress.blogspot.com

"Raymond Fraser is a natural story teller. His talent with narrative is second to none in this country...THE GRUMPY MAN stories are an incredible expose of the human condition."
— MICHAEL O. NOWLAN, The Daily Gleaner

"A pleasure to read from beginning to end. I doubt many writers could comment on their time as skilfully as Fraser has in this collection, or comment with so much wit and using such great characters."
— JUDY BOWMAN, The Miramichi Leader

"Reading Fraser's writing is like listening to the voice of an epoch. He explores the things that made the sixties and seventies so legendary."
— MICAH O'DONNELL, The Aquinian

"A compelling collection of quirky characters by one of the country's finest literary craftsmen."
— STEPHEN CLARE, The Book Club radio show, Halifax

"Fraser is a superb storyteller whose stories and novels are always universally valid. He is no less than Canada's greatest living fiction writer."
— MICHAEL VAUGHAN

OTHER BOOKS FROM RAYMOND FRASER.

When The Earth Was Flat
"Remembering Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, the Flat Earth Society, the King James monarchy hoax, the Montreal Story Tellers and other curious matters". Black Moss Press. $20.

Rum River (novel & stories). Broken Jaw Press. $20.

Before You're A Stranger -- new & selected poems. Lion's Head Press. $25. Also available electronically for $5 (PDF file).

In A Cloud Of Dust And Smoke (novel). Black Moss Press. $22.

In this collection of nineteen memoirs, essays and sketches, Raymond Fraser writes of a variety of fascinating subjects, including Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, Leo Ferrari, Hugh Hood, Queen Elizabeth II, John Metcalf, Lord Mountbatten, Irving Layton, Al Pittman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Santa Claus, the Flat Earth Society, the notorious Stewart Monarchy in Exile, Halloween on the Miramichi, tabloid journalism, New Brunswickers in Hollywood, evangelistic miracle workers and assorted eccentrics met along life's way. Winner of the prestigious Bernell MacDonald Prize, and the Lion's Head Best Book of the Year Award for 2007.

"An absolute blast of a read!"
-- Bernell MacDonald

"One of the most gifted writers I know, and among his gifts are two that all too rare: a zest for life and a sense of humour."
-- Alden Nowlan

"Reading When The Earth Was Flat is next best thing to a voyage of discovery, a ride on a runaway train, the thrill of a roller coaster, and a front row seat in the theatre of the absurd. This wonderfully entertaining book is the work of a gifted and accomplished author."
-- Hilary Prince, THE GUARDIAN

""It is superb. Remarkable!" — JOHN MOSS, FRSC, author and founding editor of The Journal of Canadian Fiction

"This insightful, powerful and comedic writer has been hailed by Farley Mowat as the best literary voice to come belling out of the Maritimes in decades." -- TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL

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WHAT THE CRITICS SAID ABOUT RUM RIVER

"Comic and horrifying."
— Heather Sanderson, Canadian Literature

"Perceptive, magnetic and laced with humour."
— Anne Ingram, The Gleaner

"As with all Raymond Fraser books, almost impossible to put down." — Brian Jeffrey Street, author, The Parachute Ward

"A brutal, self-deprecating honesty and a great deal of humour."
— David Cadogan, Miramichi Weekend

"A wonderful enthralling read — intensely personal yet universally relevant. Necessary pain and the heart of a poet is required to write prose like this. It's the first time I read a book straight through in a long time. I'm no critic, but Rum River belongs on the same shelf as such masterpieces as The Catcher In The Rye."
— Bernell MacDonald, author, Birds Of Passage

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(Click on back cover to see comments by Louis Dudek, T.C. Tommy Douglas and Alden Nowlan on various poetry books of mine. Or... just read them below.)

"Unfailingly interesting and impossible to put down once I started. The poems have wit and a perfectly authentic consistency — a subtle play against a constant background bass of despair or cosmic absurdity. Wonderful stuff!"
— LOUIS DUDEK

"I read the book from cover to cover — I found the verses so delightful I couldn't put it down until I finished. The everyday subjects and events the poems deal with ring so true."
— T.C. TOMMY DOUGLAS

"Raymond Fraser happens to be one of the liveliest and most entertaining writers in the country."
— ALDEN NOWLAN

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You might also like to buy a smaller book of Ray Fraser's poetry, one called Macbride Poems. It's available at Amazon.ca, and when last checked was listed as follows:

Macbride Poems (Paperback)
by Raymond Fraser (Author)
Publisher: Wild East Press

1 used available: CDN$ 794.92
Frobisher Books, USA