The Rasmussen Papers
The Rasmussen Papers
Ashley Raskovsky
, Ryan Woods
, Tanya Blake
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Dawn Macdonald
, Benita Hartwell
, cassandra schiemann
, Stephanie Dayes
, Brad MULLER
, Julie Kaniak
, Jude Castillo
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Janet Miller
, Marilyn Stanley
, Lynn Mullen
, Rodney Cross
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Susan Toy
, Beth Dekoker
, Laurie Burns
, Dot Mann
, Martine Fabris
, Vaishnavi Shanoj
, Stacey Shackel
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Sharon Forzley
, Bronya Mazereeuw
, Sandra Lackie
, Chris Carvalho
, Rosa Cross
, Brittney Warren
, toni velthuis
, Debbie Rodgers
, Joshua Lewis
, Sandra Furlotte
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Elle Kishia
, Sarah Schwartz
, Alanna Virtue
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Noelle Walsh
, Natasha Andres
, Laura Patterson
, Kevin Smith
, Mary Therrien
, Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
, Megan Turner McMillan
, Emmet Matheson
, Isisus Western
, Paula Adam
, Agnes Marshall
, Danielle Kat
, Andrea Pole
, Deana Bueley
, Barry Kazimer
, Cherryl Koylass
, Holly Elisabeth
, Maureen Brownlee
, Presley Robertson
, Lynn Andrews
, enid wray
, Mike Broderick
, Dorothy Wong
, Debra Fisher
, Jessica Casas
, Joseph Chirayil
, Anita Jones
, Kim Carswell
, Tori Levang
, Jessica Currier
, LISA NELSON
, Sara Conway
, Faye Lilley
, Anne McGouran
, GLORIA KONELSKY
, Jennifer Beyak
, Patricia Johnson
, Katherine Koller
, Cathy Stampar
, Patricia McKeown
, M. Ingibergsson
, Dru Edmiston
, Roland Schigas
, Emily Zb
, Julie M.
, Charles Leblanc
, Margaret McKay
, Michelle Arsenault
, Kartik Gupta
, Diane McPherson
, BJ Underwood
, Pat Johnston
, Robert Hykawy
, Janice Cournoyer
, Sandra Storey
, Brenda Vaccarello
, diana kirkwood
, Alex Henderson
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Lynn Bechtel
, Chris Lantz
, Karyn Newton
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Lisa Mallia
, Heather Belliveau
, Jenn George
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Tanis Anne
, Joanne Epp
, Huguette Settle
, Lindsey Andronak
, Mary Woods
, K.I. Press
, Katie Mac Macalister
, Tami Osato
, Jen Bailey
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Alice Meems
, Anna Krentz
, Val Ross
, Helene Fuhr
, Ken Gilmour
, Hailey Slaviero
, Randi Ann Doll
, Stef Novakowski
, Robert Ratelle
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Katie Kah
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Nancy Daoust
, Meghan Barton
, Hannah Branham
, Andre Labonte
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Hoda Montazeri
, Janet Hosokawa
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Thelma Ball
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A delightfully cunning, sharply insightful novel about ambition and subterfuge from the author of the Giller-longlisted novel A Beauty.
This novel's unnamed narrator is so obsessed with the desire to write the biography of her literary hero, the late poet Marianne Rasmussen, that she assumes a false name and talks her way into the house of Rasmussen's former lover, Aubrey Ash. She gets more than a foot in the door--she moves in as a lodger, gaining precious daily contact with frail, crusty, almost-centenarian Aubrey and his handsome, younger (but hardly young) brother Harry.
The would-be biographer tries to ingratiate herself with both the Ash Brothers. She flatters Aubrey and she flirts with Harry, but the harder she tries to get her hands on the coveted prize—access to the Rasmussen papers--the more she gets tangled in a trap that might just be of her own making. Can she resist the temptation to possess, by any means, the letters, photographs and first drafts that could unlock the secret to Marianne Rasmussen's genius?
The Rasmussen Papers is a brilliant reply to Henry James' The Aspern Papers. Connie Gault flips James' story on its head and slides it into contemporary Toronto's Cabbagetown, among the marginalized and dispossessed, people the narrator studies as intently as she studies everyone she meets--until a confrontation on a streetcar makes her reconsider the limits of what you can know of another's story, and how hidden we all are, especially from ourselves.
