Thursday, December 18, 2008

May 8, 2009. PREVIOUS BOOK!


THE GRUMPY MAN by Raymond Fraser.
Features 23 new stories and the definitive version of the Fraser classic novella, The Quebec Prison.
Lion's Head Press. 190 pp. $20.00. ISBN 978-0-9686034-6-8.


"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

"One of Canada's top writers at the top of his game. A great read!"
— GAIL MACMILLAN

"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

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