RAYMOND FRASER BOOKS

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RAYMOND FRASER

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OCTOBER, 2011

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THE MADNESS OF YOUTH by Raymond Fraser. Novel. Lion's Head Press, 2011. 302 pp. Paperback: $19.95 + $4.00 shipping. Hardcover: $35.95 + $4.00 shipping.

"Set in the Maritimes and Montreal, The Madness Of Youth unearths the disreputable past of a respected poetry-writing librarian... An unforgettable view of wayward youth in the early Sixties."______________________________

REPENTANCE VALE by Raymond Fraser. Novel. Lion's Head Press, 2011. 140 pp. Softcover. Publisher's list price: $16.95. Special price here: $11.00 (plus $4 shipping).

"In this satiric tale of neo-gothic horror, Haliberton "Bertie" Beaumont, heir to the Beaumont shipping fortune, schemes to seduce the pretty young daughter of Matthias Gogg, a fundamentalist religious fanatic who secretly believes in human sacrifice..."

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THE TRIALS OF BROTHER BELL by Raymond Fraser.
Two novels, "Repentance Vale" and "The Struggle Outside". Lion's Head Press. 272 pp. Softcover: $17.95 + $4.00 shipping. Hardcover: $39.95 (hardcover no longer available) + $4.00 shipping.

Available Hard & Softcover

"Represents the best in contemporary satire. Outrageously funny.” – BEST SELLERS, New York.

"Exuberant, comic, with a satiric edge frequently bordering on absurdist fantasy." – LINDA SANDLER, Saturday Night

"I`ve never read anything like it. Brilliant!" – NEIL TONER, Librarian

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

In Another Life. Lion's Head Press. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-9686034-8-2. Lion's Head Press. 2009. $19.95 + $4.00 shipping.

"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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The Grumpy Man features 23 new stories and the definitive version of the author's classic novella, The Quebec Prison.
Lion's Head Press, November 2008. $16.95 + $4 shipping. 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

RUM RIVER. Novel and stories. Broken Jaw Press, 1987. $16.95 + $4 shipping. Signed by author.

"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