Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits

Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits is the unconventional autobiography of the Canadian novelist who was a malingerer in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, a radar technician on the DEW-line, a Gandy-dancer for the CPR, a maths crammer in an eccentric private school, friend and confidante of Irving Layton and Milton Acorn, the owner of a steam laundry in Montreal, professor of Chaucerian studies at Simon Fraser, and, after decades of atheism, a convert to Christianity. His essays have appeared in Bad Trips , The MacMillan Anthology , Best Canadian Essays 1989 and The Georgia Straight . He has published four novels, The Land of Is , The October Men , Skevington’s Daughter , and Runner in the Dark .