Ray Robertson is the author of nine novels, six collections of non-fiction, and a book of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages. He contributed liner notes to three Grateful Dead archival releases: Dave’s Picks #45, the Here Comes Sunshine 1973 boxed set, and the From the Mars Hotel 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, he lives in Toronto.
15 Ebooks by Ray Robertson
Ray Robertson: Heroes
‘Ray Robertson is an irrepressible voice, with brass balls and a heart of gold.’—Jonathan Evison Peter Bayle—heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, anemic lover—is in Kansas, writing a feature on middl …
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€23.99
Ray Robertson: Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)
“The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified.” — LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray …
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€14.99
Ray Robertson: 1979
It’s 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small working- class city of Chatham, Ontario. So far, so normal. Except that Tom’s dad is the local tattoo artist, his mother is a bor …
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€11.99
Ray Robertson: Moody Food
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 …
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€21.99
Ray Robertson: Why Not?
Featured on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos. SHORTLISTED FOR THE $60, 000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Longlisted for the $25, 000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fi …
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€16.99
Ray Robertson: David
‘God and whiskey have got me where I am. Too little of the one, too much of the other.’ —David King, 1895. Born a slave in 1847, but raised as a free man by the Reverend William King, David has rebel …
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€16.99
Ray Robertson: I Was There the Night He Died
“Ray Robertson is an irrepressible voice, with brass balls, and a heart of gold. I Was There the Night He Died is a hilarious, moving, insightful, and timely piece of modern realism, delightfully voi …
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Ray Robertson: Warum nicht?
In Zeiten entgleisender Depressionen im öffentlichen wie im privaten Raum, schöpft Ray Robertson aus Literatur, Philosophie und seiner Biografie, um die Wertschätzung der Existenz zu rehabilitieren. …
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€13.99
Ray Robertson: Heroes
Heroes tells the story of Peter Bayle – heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, and anemic lover – as he visits a town in Kansas to write a story for Toronto Living magazine about the newfound love of m …
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€10.84
Ray Robertson: Heroes
Heroes tells the story of Peter Bayle – heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, and anemic lover – as he visits a town in Kansas to write a story for Toronto Living magazine about the newfound love of m …
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€15.46
Ray Robertson: Moody Food
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 Sta …
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€2.55
Ray Robertson: How to Die
A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy. “He who would teach men to die would teach them to live, ” writes Montaigne in Essais, …
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€12.99
Ray Robertson: Moody Food
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 Sta …
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€2.56
Ray Robertson: Estates Large and Small
Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life. What decades of rent increases and …
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€15.99
Ray Robertson: All the Years Combine
A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life. Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grat …
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€15.99
