Cape Breton Is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada - by Ray Smith (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

First published in 1969, Ray Smith's Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada remains as refreshing, innovative and important today as it has in every previous incarnation. Sophisticated, playful, crafted, sly, self-referential and extremely funny, it marks the beginning of a long and important, if unfortunately under appreciated, career by one of Canada's best humorists and innovative story-tellers.

Review Quotes

Ray Smith's collection "is a postmodern collage that neatly puts the boots to the kind of earnest Canadian nationalism running rampant in this country at the time."-Steven Beattie

Ray Smith's collection "is a postmodern collage that neatly puts the boots to the kind of earnest Canadian nationalism running rampant in this country at the time."--Steven Beattie

About the Author

Ray Smith: A native of Mabou, Cape Breton, to which he has returned, Ray Smith lived in Montreal for forty years, where he taught English literature at Dawson College. He is the author of, among others, A Night at the Opera (winner of the 1992 Qspell Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction), Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada, Century, and most recently, The Flush of Victory: Jack Bottomly Among the Virgins, all published by Biblioasis.