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Books by Keath Fraser






Bad Trips(1st Edition)
A Sometimes Terrifying, Sometimes Hilarious Collection of Writing on the Perils of the Road
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 1991 by Vintage
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72908-2, ISBN: 0-679-72908-9

"Half the pleasure of reading the stories collected together in Bad Trips, an anthology of travel writing, is imagining the authors so wonderfully out of place! Picture Indian author Anita Desai in wintry Norway or proper British writer Jonathan Raban in a seamy Louisiana pool hall. Italian semiotician Umberto Eco in Southern California? David Mamet in the Caribbean? Before you've even started, you know it's going to be good. The s ..."






Charity
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2020 by Biblioasis
ISBN-13: 978-1-77196-380-0, ISBN: 1-77196-380-8

"Denise’s stepdaughter is a med student who swims ocean marathons and runs off to Africa with a family friend four times her age―and also battles an eating disorder. When Judy, Greta’s birth mother, returns from Japan (to which she ran off herself, with a Mexican tennis pro) and tries to ingratiate herself with the husband and daughter she left, Denise must navigate their complicated relationships with each other and with her―while attem ..."






Foreign Affairs
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1985 by Stoddart
ISBN-13: 978-0-7737-5042-5, ISBN: 0-7737-5042-8






TAKING COVER, Stories
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, Published 1982 by Oberon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-88750-456-3, ISBN: 0-88750-456-6






Worst Journeys(1st Edition)
The Picador Book of Travel (English and Spanish Edition)
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, 409 Pages, Published 1993 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-32141-9, ISBN: 0-330-32141-2

"Experience -- at comfortable second-hand -- a selection of the worst journeys in the world, described by some of the best writers on travel in the world. Worst Journeys combines reportage, fiction and poetry in an anthology that features many of the best-known writers of our times. 'It is always good to discover new excuses to stay at home, particularly when the excuses are as enjoyable and well-written as these' Peter Mayle 'We are all ..."






Damages
Selected Stories 1982-2012 (reSet Series)
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Biblioasis
ISBN-13: 978-1-77196-293-3, ISBN: 1-77196-293-3

"A literary titan of Canadian short fiction, Keath Fraser’s influence has been felt long and wide since the publication of his first collection Taking Cover in 1982. Damages collects the finest of Fraser’s work across decades. Moving, complex, and with the emotional complexity of a true master, these stories showcase Fraser as one of the best story writers of the last fifty years."






As for Me and My Body(1st Edition)
A Memoir of Sinclair Ross
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1997 by Ecw Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55022-310-1, ISBN: 1-55022-310-0

"Offering an intimate portrait of the last years of Sinclair Ross's often beleaguered life, this elegant account of an artist in decline—crippled by Parkinson's Disease and a sense of failure, attracted to suicide and his own sexual revelations—leads readers to a new biographical reading of one of Canada's most acclaimed novels, As for Me and My House. As a homosexual, Sinclair Ross grew up behind his own false front on the prairies, dev ..."






Popular Anatomy(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, 584 Pages, Published 1995 by Porcupine's Quill
ISBN-13: 978-0-88984-149-9, ISBN: 0-88984-149-7

"How can he trust his nose anymore to make sure no one is burning garbage in the barbecue, or furniture and carpets in the fireplace? Tenants' ... The slum landlord tasting expectation in the air like smoke. He wants ... Rooms wrangling in different languages, mouths by the dozen eating and sucking, chewing the breeze over dishwashing jobs and deportation. ... It is Andrew who suffers Trudy's loss now."






Taking cover
Stories
by Keath Fraser
Hardcover, 138 Pages, Published 1982 by Oberon Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-88750-455-6, ISBN: 0-88750-455-8






The voice gallery(1st Edition)
Travels with a glass throat
by Keath Fraser
Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 2002 by Thomas Allen
ISBN-13: 978-0-88762-101-7, ISBN: 0-88762-101-5

"Years after a rare vocal disorder caused Keath Fraser to nearly lose his voice, another tragedy irrevocably altered the award-winning novelist and short story writer's life. As his wife lay unconscious beside him, he was unable to call for help. These events set him on a global quest in search of others whose lives, like his, had undergone a similar and mysterious collapse of voice. For twenty years, Fraser was told by the medical estab ..."






Telling My Love Lies(1st Edition)
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by Porcupine's Quill
ISBN-13: 978-0-88984-179-6, ISBN: 0-88984-179-9

"Telling My Love Lies begins romantically in the hot and prickly cornfields of pubescent youth, lambent with country-and-western songs of the narrator's past, and concludes in operatic San Francisco, the refuge of an older narrator in elegiac flight from an imprisoning tire farm and the taint of glory holes. In between, in these doubly imagined stories, a lover of rock 'n' roll flies to a Mexican Club Med seeking solace for her lost voic ..."






The Luck of Ginger Coffey
by Brian Moore, Keath Fraser
Unbound, 256 Pages, Published 1988 by New Canadian Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-7710-9993-9, ISBN: 0-7710-9993-2

"Wasn’t he at long last an adventurer, a man who had gambled all on one horse, a horse coloured Canada, which now by hook or by crook would carry him to fame and fortune?” Meet Ginger Coffey, the irrepressible fortune-hunter of Brian ..."






Worst Journeys(Updated)
(ISIS Large Print)
by Keath Fraser
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1994 by Thomas T Beeler
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-1-85695-225-5, ISBN: 1-85695-225-8






Bad Trips
by Keath Fraser
384 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-79719-3, ISBN: 0-307-79719-8

"ABLEY. Mark Abley was born in England in 1955, grew up on the Canadian prairies, and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan. He then attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He now lives and works as a critic and free-lance journalist in Montreal. In 1985, he returned to the prairies in an attempt to rediscover his place in their vastness. He drove south from Saskatoon, to the town of Forget (pronounced Forjay), and thence throu ..."






Best Canadian Stories 07
by John Metcalf, Steven Heighton, Keath Fraser, Clark Blaise, Mary Borsky, Patricia Young
Hardcover, Published 2007 by Oberon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7780-1300-6, ISBN: 0-7780-1300-6






As for Me and My Body
A Memoir of Sinclair Ross
by Keath Fraser
Digital, 98 Pages, Published 1997 by Ecw Press,Canada
ISBN-13: 978-1-55490-310-8, ISBN: 1-55490-310-6






The New Press Anthology
Best Canadian Short Fiction # (New Press Canadian Classics) 1 (v. 1)
by John Metcalf, Leon Rooke, Don Dickinson, Keath Fraser, Mavis Gallant, Evan Green, Terry Griggs, Norman Levine, Margot Livesay, Jean Mckay, Patrick Roscoe, Eunice Scarfe, Stephen Scobie, Ray Smith, Jill Swartz, Canada Stoddart Publishing
Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 1984 by General Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-7736-7047-1, ISBN: 0-7736-7047-5

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The Luck of Ginger Coffey
by Brian Moore, Keath Fraser
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2008 by New Canadian Library
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-7710-9373-9, ISBN: 0-7710-9373-X

"“No, for wasn’t this the chance he had always wanted? Wasn’t he at long last an adventurer, a man who had gambled all on one horse, a horse coloured Canada, which now by hook or by crook would carry him to fame and fortune?”Meet Ginger Coffey, the irrepressible fortune-hunter of Brian Moore’s award-winning novel. The Luck of Ginger Coffey is the robust, funny, sometimes tragic tale of one unforgettable Irish immigrant to Montreal. Buoye ..."






New edition of "Worst Journeys(Updated)
The Picador Book of Travel"
by Keath Fraser
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1994 by Isis Large Print Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-85695-220-0, ISBN: 1-85695-220-7






Worst Journeys(1st Edition)
The Picador Book Of Travel (Picado
by Keath Fraser
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 1992 by Pan Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-32140-2, ISBN: 0-330-32140-4

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