Biblioasis, Jan.
Vancouver writer Keath Fraser is one of this country’s most robust and individual literary voices; though despite a career that includes winning the Chapters/
Books in Canada First Novel Award for 1995’s
Popular Anatomy and being nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for the story collection
Foreign Affairs a decade earlier, he is generally consigned to cult status at best in Canada.
With luck, all that will change in spring, when Biblioasis releases not one but two editions of the author’s work. The massive retrospective volume
Damages features stories selected from throughout Fraser’s career, beginning with the 1982 collection