Ravenscrag

A writer split between two eras feels at home in neither: we are at McGill in 1962 and in 2012 at the same time. The real problem lies elsewhere: on campus, a psychiatrist is carrying out deprogramming experiments on his patients. The writer's uncle, Nab Safi, knows something about it, but soon he is no longer there to tell. So begins an investigation where places, objects, memories and people collide: a mother in the Lebanese ghetto gambles her son at dice to pay her debts, an assistant runs a punch-card computer, dinosaurs return, and an old photo and a gothic swimming pool lead down into Ravenscrag, the gloomy thirty-six-room mansion. Both retro science fiction and autofiction.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

216 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Canada, 1962 and 2012

First published

2013 by Le Quartanier

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9782896981076 (original)

9781770898950 (House of Anansi Press, Canada)

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