Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0771032919 . Signed by Author; Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 283 pages; Gibson, Margaret Atwood's husband, has signed this on the title page. Set in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the machine age was coming into its own, Perpetual Motion chronicles the fortunes of settler Robert Fraser, a man obsessed with power and control. Driven by the idea of inventing a perpetual motion machine which will utilize natural energy, he neglects and destroys not only the nature around him but his own family too, as his overbearing rationality becomes a kind of tragic lunacy. .

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Graeme Gibson was born in London, Ontario, in 1934. An important spokesman for Canadian cultural identity, Gibson was the initial organizer and a founding member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, and was its chairman in 1976. He was also an organizer and founding member of the Writers’ Trust, a non-profit organization, and was subsequently its chairman. From 1987 to 1989 he was president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN. In 1990, he won a Toronto Arts Award for writing and publishing, and, in 1992 he received the Order of Canada. He is the author of four novels, Five Legs (1969), Communion (1971), Perpetual Motion (1982), and Gentleman Death (1993). Graeme Gibson lives in Toronto, Ontario. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Ainsworth Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1082
Title: PERPETUAL MOTION
Author: Gibson, Graeme
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Canadian Edition
ISBN 10: 0771032919
ISBN 13: 9780771032912
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Place of Publication: Toronto, ON
Date Published: 1982
Keywords: 0771032919, CAN-LIT Canadian Literature
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Canadian;

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