Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's 'Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)' offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll...
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Author: Robertson, RaySummary:Shortly after completing his sixth novel, Ray Robertson suffered a depression of suicidal intensity. Central to his recovery was the decision to try and answer two of the biggest questions we can...
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Author: Robertson, RaySummary:It's 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small town of Chatham with his father and older sister. So far, so normal. But Tom's dad is the local tattoo artist, his older...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Robertson, RaySummary:From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s - a sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll-suffused modern tragedy. For Bill Hansen, things couldn't be better. He'...
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Author: Robertson, RaySummary:'So,' she says. 'Who died tonight?' Sam Samson, meet Samantha. Sam's a novelist: his dad has Alzheimer's, his mother died of stroke, his wife was killed seventeen months ago in a car crash....
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction -
Author: Robertson, RaySummary:Peter Bayle - heavy drinker, philosopher to-be, anemic lover - somehow finds himself in Kansas, writing a feature article on middle America's newfound love for hockey. There he meets, among others...
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Author: Robertson, RaySummary:Born a slave in 1847, but raised as a free man by the Reverend William King, David has rebelled against his emancipator and his predestined future in the church. He's taken up residence in the...
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Author: Robertson, RaySummary:What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too...
Genre: Domestic fiction