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"From Amazon " Sheila Watson's The Double Hook and Ray Smith's Cape Breton Is the Thought Control Centre of Canada are the twin fountainheads of experimental fiction in Canada. A McLuhan protégé, steeped in the formal adventures of international modernism, Watson brought a new sophistication to Canadian writing with The Double Hook.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and earnest.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Sheila Watson
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 134
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart, Pungitopo, McDlelland & Stewart
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, French, Italian, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780771099984
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