Lily : A Rhapsody In Red

Robertson, Heather

ISBN 10: 0888629540 / ISBN 13: 9780888629548

Published by James Lorimer & Company Limited, Publishers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1986

About this Item

The book is inscribed and signed by the author on the half title page.

Seller Inventory # 010589

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lily : A Rhapsody In Red
• Publisher: James Lorimer & Company Limited, Publishers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0888629540
• ISBN 13: 9780888629548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Lily: A Rhapsody in Red, second book in the King Years trilogy, is a dazzling comic epic of politics, sex and scandal during the 1920s and '30s.
Our guide on the journey is the indomitable Lily Coolican, the former secret bride of Mackenzie King who follows her ne'er-do-well twin brother Jack to the raw mining country of northern Ontario. Jack gets rich; Lily gets Communism. In Ottawa Lily's Mum finds her true calling as the psychic architect of Mackenzie King's political triumphs. King, now leader of the Liberal Party, turns his skills in scheming and spiritualism to running the country. While his ethical elasticity traps him in a web of Grit patronage and corruption, Lily marches towards the dialectical light in service of the byzantine politics of the Communist Party.
Lily is at once a remarkable political meditation and an uninhibited comedy that will outrage and delight, and change forever how Canadians think about the turbulent Twenties and Thirties.

About the Author

HEATHER ROBERTSON is one of Canada\s most accomplished and acclaimed authors. Her many books include Reservations are for Indians Grass Roots A Terrible Beauty and Willie: A Romance. Born in Winnipeg she has long lived in Toronto.'