They Have Bodies, by Barney Allen - (Canadian Literature Collection) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Sexy, saucy, and unsparingly satirical, Barney Allen's They Have Bodies is the most experimental book written by a Canadian until well into the 1960s. Gregory Betts reintroduces this censored "realistic novel in eleven chapters and three acts."</p> <p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Published in 1929, and almost instantly censored by the Toronto City Police, They Have Bodies has been completely overlooked by generations of scholars and writers interested in the Canadian avant-garde.</p> <p>It is not just the novel's extreme formal innovation that is immediately startling about They Have Bodies. There is also its close attention to the depraved, licentious behaviour of Toronto's elite, its revelation of moral hypocrisy, and its exposure of the means by which aristocratic and church power provides succour to egregious duplicity. Its social criticism and dark humour were too much for Canadian readers at the time.</p> <p>It is, however, exactly the kind of book contemporary Canadian readers, writers, and scholars hope lies buried in the archives waiting to be recovered. A gem of insight, innovation, and novelty: finally, here is a new edition of one of the rarest, wildest books of the twentieth century.</p> <p><i>This book is published in English</i></p> <p>--</p> <p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Gregory Betts </b>is a poet, professor, and editor. He has been the Craig Dobbin Professor of Canadian Studies at the University College Dublin and the Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University. He is the author of Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations and editor (or co-editor) of nine volumes of experimental Canadian writing. He teaches at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario</p>
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