Dear Reader Selected Scott Symons |
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Author:
| Symons, Scott |
ISBN: | 978-1-896356-18-1 |
Publication Date: | May 1998 |
Publisher: | Gutter Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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"Dear Reader: Selected Scott Symons combines excerpts from his published material with previously unpublished extracts from novels and diaries. Celebrating both civic duty and the sensual life, spirituality and homoeroticism, intense satire and heartfelt celebration, Symons' themes are as complex as their formal expression. He writes across the categories of novel, journalism, academic essay, and connoisseur's treatise. The result is a series of works unique to Canadian letters,...
More Description"Dear Reader: Selected Scott Symons combines excerpts from his published material with previously unpublished extracts from novels and diaries. Celebrating both civic duty and the sensual life, spirituality and homoeroticism, intense satire and heartfelt celebration, Symons' themes are as complex as their formal expression. He writes across the categories of novel, journalism, academic essay, and connoisseur's treatise. The result is a series of works unique to Canadian letters, collected here in a thoroughly readable format."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved