Ray Robertson

• Aug-2022
• / Psychological Suspense
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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 declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic fin...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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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 born-again former stripper who’s run off with th...

• Jun-2014
• / Literary
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“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 void of literary pretension. Here, at last, is a nov...

• Jan-2013
• / Historical
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"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 rebelled against his emancipator and his predestined fu...

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction
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Poetic, poignant and clever, What Happened Later is a unique and engaging story of two lives that were forever changed by one book. In 1967, only ten years after the sensational success of On the Road, Jack Kerouac was a physically broken, spiritu...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s â€" 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 simultane...

• Jan-2006
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Hank Roberts can’t buy a thrill. Everyone in his life but Hank, it seems has either become what they set out to be or are well on their way to getting there. He loves his wife, his dog, and rock and roll, but lately that just doesn’t seem enough....

• Feb-2000
• / General Fiction
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"Ray Robertson is an irrepressible voice, with brass balls and a heart of gold." -- Jonathan EvisonPeter Bayle -- heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, anemic lover -- is in Kansas, writing a feature on middle America's newfound love for hockey. There...