Son of a Smaller Hero Mordecai Richler New York: Paperback Library, 1968 |
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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING
"Do the Mounties always get their man, like they say?" "Well, they got me." |
"I'm Detective O'Brien, sir… RCMP." |
"You don't look like a Mountie." "I left my horse outside." |
"I can't stand it here. I loath it. I hate Canada!" |
"I hate this country. It's so cold." |
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964 |
Amsterdam: Muntinga, 2000 |
Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag, 2007 |
Milan: Adelphi, 2010 |
According to Rohmer, someone at Bantam in New York who knew nothing about Canada and less about art, designed the cover and wrote the copy on the back. Then the book was launched in Canada "without promotion" even though a television film of the book was in the works. The paperback was "a disaster." "It died and when it went out of print about a year ago, the rights reverted to me." In the meantime, Rohmer had moved to General Publishing, which wanted to re-release Separation in their PaperJacks line. Rohmer agreed, but suggested the book should be updated. And that's how Separation II [sic], which Rohmer suggests is "the same book yet different," came about.Okay, a few quick observations:
David A. Balfour 1889 - 1956 RIP |
Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor New York: Macmillan, 1944 |
Kitty Rosamond Marshall Toronto: Collins White Circle, 1944 |
Duchess Hotspur Rosamond Marshall Toronto: Collins White Circle, 1947 |
The Flesh is Willing James Clayford Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 |
The Globe & Mail, 30 September 1949 |
* David Balfour is, of course, also the name of the central character in Robert Lewis Stevenson's Kidnapped, which was published just three years before the controller's birth. I'm not certain that this wasn't just a coincidence.
TAXES FUND OFFENSIVE CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT ABUSIVE FATHER:
Suddenly your dad is no longer a man to be loved or trusted
It begins with bad old Dad, divorced from good old Mum, forcing his way into his ex-wife's bedroom and screaming at her until she weeps. He then kidnaps the kids and they are so terrified they think he might kill them all and then commit suicide.Well, no.
Her book features three other men: a crabby oldster, a fat and stupid state trooper and a good Samaritan who has been unjustly denied legal access to his own children.There is no "crabby oldster" in the novel. The state trooper, girth never mentioned, is pretty sharp. The good Samaritan, named Dusty Andover, is a very fine and generous gentleman. He has never been denied access, legal or otherwise, to his children, though there is estrangement. Dusty's adult offspring – no sexes mentioned – begrudge his having spent their inheritances in fighting their mother's cancer.
It will be forgotten before we can say 'bleeding-heart neurotic'.Found in most of our larger public libraries. Used copies are cheap, but I encourage anyone considering purchase to buy it new. Yep, How Do You Spell Abducted? is still available. Setting It Right, Michael Coren's book from the same year is long out of print.
— Michael Coren, Books in Canada, Oct 1996