Century - (Biblioasis Renditions) by Ray Smith (Paperback)

About the Book

Terrifying, powerful, slashing and satiric Century remains the most important work of Ray Smith's oeuvre.

Book Synopsis

The fourth title in Biblioasis's Renditions Series, Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle of the Seymour family that moves from Austria, America and Africa, through Edinburgh and Venice, and then back through the Paris of the Belle Epoque and forward to 1923 Germany. Terrifying, powerful, slashing and satiric, yet at the same time musical and wonder-filled, Century remains the most important work of Ray Smith's ouevre, and one of the most impressive, and far-reaching novels ever published in Canada.

Review Quotes

"The various pieces in Century, with their echoes and reverberations, their layers of images and ideas, resemble the prose equivalent of a symphony."--Steven Beattie

"Though Century is doubly complicated in that its parts are so much apart, and yet this makes the relationships between them all the more remarkable."--Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This

"The various pieces in Century, with their echoes and reverberations, their layers of images and ideas, resemble the prose equivalent of a symphony."--Steven Beattie

"Though Century is doubly complicated in that its parts are so much apart, and yet this makes the relationships between them all the more remarkable."--Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This

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.