<p>Inspired by the exploits of ill-fated country-rock visionary Gram Parsons, this mid-60s tale of idealism and escape traces the trials of a fictionalized draft-dodging flower child from the United States to Canada and back. It is the late 1960s in Yorkville, Toronto's hippie ghetto of artists, intellectuals, drunken poets, and would-be rock stars. In this idyllic haven, narrator Bill Hansen, a drummer, meets Thomas Graham, an American musician on the lam from the draft. The two form a band, but even as they revel in music and freedom, Graham is hobbled by another love: a drug habit that becomes his reason for living and, eventually, for dying. Graham's emotional trip and failed, revolutionary life reflect the rise and fall of an entire generation's aspirations.</p>

Moody Food

Literature & Fiction

Ray Robertson

World Literature

Anchor Canada

The Plight of Students of Color at Predominantly White Institutions: A Critical Reader

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

<p>Twenty-four-year-old James Thompson is in trouble. His record company is waiting for his third album, but Thompson has a good old case of writer’s block. In Home Movies, the remarkable debut novel by Ray Robertson, Thompson travels from Toronto to his small hometown of Datum, Ontario, where he finds all the material he needs to write songs from his eccentric family and the seductive 19-year-old aspiring poetess, Melissa.</p>

Home Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Cormorant Books

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

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