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Vintage, Toronto, 2001, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-679-31124-6.  Trade soft cover, 248 pages including The Works of Matt Cohen, and Index.  Unread remaindered copy with very light edge and cover wear.  ‘Completed two weeks before he died, Matt Cohen’s last book is an invaluable and moving reckoning of his life as a writer.  … Cohen was a touchstone for many writers and readers in this country, at the same time as he was a dedicated outsider, a Jewish intellectual moving through a WASPish cultural woods.  Here he charts his own progress, from his early days at Rochdale writing self-consciously hip prose, to his move to a farm near Kingston.’ (from rear wrap)