The box social and other stories
By: James Reaney.
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Erin, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Ontario -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Other titles: Box social & other stories
Description: "The Box Social & Other Stories gathers together nine of James Reaney's short fictions written in the 40s and early 50s and never previously collected in book form.

The collection takes its title from a short piece the author originally published in the University College Undergrad and which provoked a firestorm of eight hundred angry letters from subscribers when it was republished nationally in the New Liberty in the late 40s. It also thwarted the young author's designs on the editorship of the Undergrad because of his clear moral unsuitability for such an august position. (This is doubtful, because the Undergrad eventually came to be edited, thirty years later, by PQL publisher Tim Inkster.) 'The Box Social' is remarkable, not only that it introduced the theme of date rape to Canadian literature some thirty years before the phrase was coined, but also that it is told from Sylvia's point of view, and yet again that it ends with one of the quietest lines of literary vitriol imaginable ... ' & 'grave; I hated you so much, '' she said softly.'"--Pub. desc.
Table of contents: title: The box social; title: Fatherhood, manhood, circumcision, &c.; title: The ditch: first reading; title: Embro; title: Memento mori; title: The car; title: The bully; title: The ditch: second reading; title: Master William Butterfield; title: The ditch: third reading; title: Sleigh without bells.