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From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s – a sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll-suffused modern tragedy. As Bill Hansen recounts the rise and fall of Thomas Graham and his musical vision, he simultaneously tells the story of frustrated idealism and the passing of an entire generation.
“Toronto’s Yorkville in the 1960’s. It’s a tale of idealism gone awry, of dreams going off the rails, of life catching up with those who live it at too rapid a pace. Robertson’s ability to catch the mood of the times is uncanny. Moody Food simply bursts with the life of the street.”—London Free Press
“Riotous and tender, funny and sad, Moody Food is as good an elegy for the counterculture as we’ve seen. The question, `What if someone were to a write a 60’s rock novel worthy of its subject’ need no longer be asked.”—Books in Canada
“Clever, word-drunk, and falling-down funny . . . Robertson is a moral writer and a bitingly intelligent one, a man who writes with penetrating insight of what needs to be written about: beauty, truth and goodness.”—Globe and Mail
“Young Canadian novelist Robertson re-creates the funky atmosphere of 1960s Toronto in this homage to the short, drug-fueled life of musician Gram Parsons (here fictionalized as American southerner Thomas Graham). Robertson builds in a sense of foreboding even as he offers a frequently hilarious take on a troubled musical visionary.”—Booklist
“Robertson’s skill in writing about music earns this book its place on this list. He doesn’t merely describe a song from the outside; he enters fully into the flow, recreating the experience for the reader with an often heart-breaking clarity. There are musical moments in Moody Food that are, quite literally, breathtaking.”—The Vancouver Sun
“One of the major pleasures of the book – one among many – is its language…every voice and description in the book rings with authenticity.”—The National Post
“…his characters are as engaging as they are vivid. The spell of his barroom yarn never lets up…Burning question: Will Ray Robertson and his book make the cover of Rolling Stone?”—The Montreal Gazette
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