LEADER 02495nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910825421803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-91062-3 010 $a9786610910625 010 $a1-4593-0914-6 010 $a1-897414-54-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000335910 035 $a(EBL)299634 035 $a(OCoLC)191953147 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000071135 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11109557 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071135 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10089850 035 $a(PQKB)10708155 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000387138 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11938108 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000387138 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10402400 035 $a(PQKB)22315162 035 $a(CaPaEBR)407957 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00207877 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL299634 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10176438 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/d2t09k 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/4/407957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC299634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3247909 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000335910 100 $a20030425d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMental hygiene $eessays on writers and writing /$fRay Robertson 210 $aToronto $cInsomniac Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-894663-43-8 327 $aContents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: US; PART TWO: THEM; PART THREE: ME 330 $aOne 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 McCanl 606 $aBooks$vReviews 615 0$aBooks 676 $a810.9 700 $aRobertson$b Ray$f1966-$01598139 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825421803321 996 $aMental hygiene$93920192 997 $aUNINA