As For Sinclair Ross
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: May 16, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780802043887
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Canadian; American English; Literary Criticism; Canada; Ross, Sinclair; Literary Criticism & Collections / Canadian; Biography; Literary; 20th century; Authors, Canadian
First sentence: When James Sinclair Ross was born on 22 January 1908, it was a bitterly cold day in the bush country of northern Saskatchewan, but winter wasn't the only adversity attending his birth.
Description: "Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941) and for such familiar short stories as 'The Lamp at Noon' and 'The Painted Door, ' is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the Prairies during the Great Depression, Ross nevertheless received only modest attention from the public during his lifetime. His reluctance to give readings or interviews further contributed to this faint public perception of the man." "In As for Sinclair Ross, David Stouck tells the story of a lonely childhood in Saskatchewan, of a long and unrewarding career in a bank, and of many failed attempts to be published and to find an audience. The book also tells the story of a man who fell in love with both men and women and who wrote from a position outside any single definition of gender and sexuality."--Jacket.