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Set in the years 1964-65, Seasons of Discontent is a spirited and captivating sequel to two of the author's best-known novels, The Bannonbridge Musicians and In Another Life. "I didn't think there would be a better book than In Another Life, but Seasons of Discontent is as good if not better." EUGENE PETERS, Essayist & Critic "Raymond Fraser is a Canadian literary legend. If every writer wrote with the clarity and gusto Fraser does, more people would still be readers." ALAN TEPPER "The best literary voice to come belling out of the Maritimes in decades." FARLEY MOWAT "A natural story teller whose talent with narrative is second to none in this country." MICHAEL O. NOWLAN, The Daily Gleaner "Reading Fraser's writing is like listening to the voice of an epoch. He explores the things that made the sixties and seventies so legendary." MICAH O'DONNELL, The Aquinian "A highly original voice that is occasionally sad, sometimes very comic, and nearly always ironic in a gentle rather than a savage way. A real pleasure to read." ALAN DAWE, Vancouver Sun "A New Brunswick literary icon, and one of Canada's best story tellers." MELISSA WALKER, Park Towers Magazine

"A very original work. The stories vary greatly, but are held together by the voice of the narrator - which is very well maintained - and by various elements of cross-referencing and continuity. The author moves into and out of the phantasmagoric but his fine details (geographical, physical and zoological) keep the stories believable and grounded. It's the conscious with its archetypical conflict between death and life, darkness and light, good and evil - the battle between God and the Devil for the soul." Robert Gibbs

A new edition revised and edited by the author. Nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1978, Raymond Fraser's relentlessly funny third novel tells the story of a group of young Maritimers forever dreaming of "goin' down the road" and making it big in Toronto. Their drinking bouts, their womanizing and their adventuring in small-town New Brunswick somehow get in the way of their ambitions. Outrageous and unforgivingly accurate. "It's well-written, it's touching, it's full of life, and it's funny." ANDRE VIGNEAULT, CBC Radio "It's a book of soul and spirit. Its characters are real, vibrant, enjoyable and maddening." STEPHEN PATRICK CLARE & TREVOR J. ADAMS, Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books "A rollicking story, well told." WILLIAM FRENCH, Globe & Mail "Above all the book is ALIVE. This in the final analysis is the best test of any work of art. It moves and vibrates with all the dynamic energy of the mighty Miramichi River, that great river that flows through the colorful country of the lives of the novel's characters." DAVE BUTLER, Miramichi Press "Fraser is a Canadian literary legend. If every writer wrote with the clarity and gusto Fraser does, more people would still be readers." ALAN TEPPER

THE STRUGGLE OUTSIDE "ln the mad few days covered by the novel the conspirators' power struggle rages in an atmosphere of surreal humor. But this is more than a funny book. Today's news about guerrilla forces like this make the story disturbingly plausible." READING FOR PLEASURE (U.S.) "Exuberant, comic, with a satiric edge frequently bordering on absurdist fantasy." LINDA SANDLER, Saturday Night "An almost surrealistic account.... it represents the best in contemporary satire. Outrageously funny." AARON MICHELSON, Best Sellers, New York "Absolutely hilariously funny... Farce is not easy to sustain, but Raymond Fraser can mix the absurdities of humanity into fine, plausible fiction." MICHAEL O. NOWLAN, The Gleaner "A great read from a talented writer." LYMAN WARD, Actor ("Ferris Buehler's Day Off", etc) "Spellbinding." NORMA WEST LINDER, Poet

THE BLACK HORSE TAVERN is Raymond Fraser's landmark first book of fiction. Revised and edited by the author, this long-awaited definitive edition features a novella and nine stories, along with a new Introduction "All ten stories in THE BLACK HORSE TAVERN bear the Fraser touch: gutsy realism, originality, and humour. The effect is hilarious, moving, and sad. It's quite a book." BETTY SHAPIRO, Montreal Gazette "Raymond Fraser is one of the most gifted writers I know, and among his gifts are two that are all too rare: a zest for life and a sense of humour. He belongs to the timeless tradition of story tellers." ALDEN NOWLAN "Rattling good yarns without managed thrills and contrived tension, THE BLACK HORSE TAVERN is the reflection of a man who has lived a life far from quiet desperation. Like Fraser's poetry, it is relentless, subtle, disturbing, bearing the stamp of immediately recognizable talent and nifty writing." JOHN RICHMOND, Montreal Star "The best literary voice to come belling out of the Maritimes in decades." FARLEY MOWAT "A highly original voice that is occasionally sad, sometimes very comic. A real pleasure to read." ALAN DAWE, Vancouver Sun "One of Canada's truly great writers." GAIL MACMILLAN, Author, Ceilidh's Quest