HA!: A Self-Murder Mystery by Sheppard, Gordon - 2003

Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. First edition. No 76 of one hundred numbered copies of the first edition. The fascimile letters inserted in envelopes in the text are all present. On the half-title Sheppard has written and signed an inscription to the publisher Hugo Brunner. Fine in fine, un-clipped dustjacket.

Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queens University Press, 2003. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket with the facsimile suicide letter in perfect order in the envelope. Red boards, 969pp. B&W illus. This huge book is a fictional treatment of the suicide of Hebert Aquin, the Montreal novelist who shot himself in 1977. HA! is a seminal work that reinvents the audio-visual revolution of the last century. Interweaving photographs, documents, and images with testimony from Aquin's friends and contemporaries, Aquin himself, and the writers and artists who influenced him, this intriguing novel takes the reader on a Joycean tour of a metropolis in the midst of political and cultural turmoil. A heavy book. (4.0 JM LVR 202/b4. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".