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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.


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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

Cape Breton Is the ThoughtControl Centre of

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    A Paperback / softback by Ray Smith, Ken Tolmie

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      Publisher: Biblioasis
      Publication Date: 02/11/2006
      ISBN13: 9780973818420, 978-0973818420
      ISBN10: 0973818425

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      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.


      Trade Review
      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

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