02495nam 2200649 a 450 991082542180332120200520144314.01-280-91062-397866109106251-4593-0914-61-897414-54-4(CKB)1000000000335910(EBL)299634(OCoLC)191953147(SSID)ssj0000071135(PQKBManifestationID)11109557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071135(PQKBWorkID)10089850(PQKB)10708155(SSID)ssj0000387138(PQKBManifestationID)11938108(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000387138(PQKBWorkID)10402400(PQKB)22315162(CaPaEBR)407957(CaBNvSL)slc00207877 (Au-PeEL)EBL299634(CaPaEBR)ebr10176438(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/d2t09k(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/4/407957(MiAaPQ)EBC299634(MiAaPQ)EBC3247909(EXLCZ)99100000000033591020030425d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMental hygiene essays on writers and writing /Ray RobertsonToronto Insomniac Pressc20031 online resource (209 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-894663-43-8 Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: US; PART TWO: THEM; PART THREE: MEOne of today's best young novelists, Ray Robertson is also one of its ablest critics. Mental Hygiene is a collection of his most entertaining, insightful, controversial, and funniest reviews and essays written over the last five years. Believing that ''writers have a responsibility to help maintain the mental hygiene of their time,'' Robertson, following in the footsteps of Mordecai Richler and other novelist-critics such as Anthony Burgess, Kingsley and Martin Amis and John Updike, is at the front line of contemporary literary debate. Whether castigating the bland cabal he refers to as McCanlBooksReviewsBooks810.9Robertson Ray1966-1598139MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825421803321Mental hygiene3920192UNINA