Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live

by Ray Robertson

Overview

A long leering look at the meaning of life, with a voice like Nick Hornby’s and smarts all its own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926845555
Publisher:	Biblioasis
Publication date:	09/23/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	175
File size:	302 KB

About the Author

Ray Robertson: Ray Robertson is the author of the novels Home Movies, Heroes, Moody Food, Gently Down the Stream, What Happened Later and David, as well as a collection of non-fiction, Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Work
Love
Intoxication
Art
The Material World
Individuality
Humour
Meaning
Friendship
Solitude
Praise
Duty
The Critical Mind
Home
Death

Editorial Reviews

"Both playful and profound, laced with insight from thinkers across a range of disciplines, from music to history, politics to literature, high to low culture."—National Post

"strong – heartfelt, funny, rigorous, practical without ever being preachy...a book that feels like a friend."—Montreal Gazette

"a learned, clear-sighted and occasionally funny collection of essays...highly persuasive"—Winnipeg Free Press

"Thoughtful meditations on the big questions of life (and death) ... Readers will not doubt their authenticity."—The Globe and Mail

Ray Robertson's Why Not? is first among the "five Canadian books you may not necessarily hear much about," but which "should be on reading radars everywhere." —The Globe and Mail

Praise for Moody Food:

"An engrossing novel, beautifully written." —Jim Harrison

"Robertson shares a literary wildness with Thomas Wolfe." —Cleveland Free Times

"A funny, generous, touching novel by a writer of genuine gifts." —Richard Currey, author, Fatal Light and Lost Highway

"The real star of Moody Food is the writing, with its displays of sharp humor and deep love of music." —Litkicks.com

“Clever, word-drunk, and falling-down funny... Robertson is a moral writer and a bitingly intelligent one, a man who writes with penetrating insight of what needs to be written about: beauty, truth and goodness.” —Globe and Mail

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