In the Beggarly Style of Imitation Gerry Rasmussen -Jim Barber

-Jim Barber

author and Artistic Director of Indian Summer Festival

McPherson infuses his gritty settings with a hyperkinetic imagination and fantastically animated writing style that make his stories impossible to put down or forget

pointing to the world around us and saying

–Cathy Stonehouse

In the Beggarly Style of Imitation Gerry Rasmussen -Jim BarberDescription Born on the twin backs of torpidity and obsession, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation is a voyage into the mind of one of the Canadian literary undergrounds most unruly writers. Equal parts tribute to the historical genesis of the novel and the well trodden subject of love, the exercises of imitation contained in this collection offer a brief survey through the illustrious forms and genres of literary expression: epistolary, aphorism,