Light, Time, and Gravity
- Publisher
- Insomniac Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- General, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554830343
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $19.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
"What is the meaning of a deluded life?" So begins Light, Time, and Gravity, a novel told from the perspective of a suicidal English professor, recalling his experiences as a seventeen-year-old working on a Southwestern Ontario tobacco farm in the summer of 1984. Part essay, part narrative, part present, part history, Light, Time, and Gravity is a kind of Notes from the Canadian Underground, a portrait of our culture's abject failure to create a genuine Canadian identity, as well as a stinging indictment of Canada's literary and intellectual elites.
About the author
Scott Bakker is the recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Fellowship, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, and the winner of the Helen B. Allison Gold Medal. He is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, including the Prince of Nothing Trilogy, a series that Publisher’s Weekly calls “a work of unforgettable power.” His novels been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in London, Ontario with his wife and daughter. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.