1988 1ST UK EDITION "BEYOND FORGET" MARK ABLEY CANADIAN PRAIRIES HB BOOK (P4)

1988 1ST UK EDITION "BEYOND FORGET" MARK ABLEY CANADIAN PRAIRIES HB BOOK (P4)

Great *RARE* antique 1ST EDITION fiction hardback book from 1988 by Mark Abley on rediscovering the prairies. Photo 16 shows an imprinted stamp of a previous owner. Binding and other pages inside are in nice condition especially as the book is 37 years old.

This is a travel book about the prairies of Canada, an area often misrepresented as being flat and featureless. Abley's journey takes him from Saskatoon and the tiny town of Forget (pronounced For-jay) through Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta, and as the author discovered, the prairies is a region of surprising beauty, variety and eccentricity, in terms of both geography and inhabitants. "Beyond forget" takes the reader from the decayed brothels of Moose Jaw and deserted churches to the materialism of West Edmonton shopping mall; through the prairies' history and the words of its writers. Between the ages of six and twenty, Mark Abley lived on the Canadian prairies. A Rhodes scholar at St John's Oxford, he has written for "The New Statesman", "The Times Literary Supplement" and several Canadian papers .

See photos for examples of pages inside.

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