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Synopsis
First published by Anansi in 1969, Five Legs was a breakthrough for Canadian experimental fiction, selling 1,000 copies in its first week. Five Legs is the subversive tale of two guilt-ridden young men, Lucan Crackell and Felix Oswald—one a professor, the other his student—caught in the grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its emotional web-spinning and sexual torments. Gibson captures both their mortifications and their spirited resistance to all things WASP, themselves included, in stream-of-consciousness prose that is at once fluid, disjointed, and hilarious. This is essential reading for any Canlit junkie, and quite a trip.
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Graeme Gibson is the author of Communion, Perpetual Motion, and Gentleman Death and is the editor of Eleven Canadian Novelists. He is a cultural activist, cofounder of the Writers' Union of Canada and the Writers' Trust, and past president of PEN Canada. He is the recipient of both the Harbourfront Festival Prize and the Toronto Arts Award and is a Member of the Order of Canada. Christian Bök is an academic and poet whose most recent book, Eunoia, won the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002.
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- PublisherHouse of Anansi Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0887846904
- ISBN 13 9780887846908
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages244
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