SCORNED & BELOVED...Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics, by Bill Richardson (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Bill Richardson. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Toronto, ON., 1997, 1st Edition. Signed and dedicated by Author. Printed in USA. Like New Condition HARDCOVER BOOK, with a company label inside on the front free page. Good Condition Dust Jacket, with minor cover wave, and slight tear on top edge back cover. Clean inside, tight spine.

SCORNED & BELOVED, is a wonderfully fresh, funny book, as the result of broadcaster Bill Richardson’s winter drive across the country in search of the most eccentric people he could find.

Consisting of a series of remarkable profiles of some of Canada’s most unusual individuals, who live—or lived—“outside the circle’s centre.” We meet a psychic who lives with ducks, a woman who models her life on Barbie’s, a cross-dresser, a hermit, and many more. Richardson’s profiles are deliciously ironic and filled with comic detail, but they are also touching and sympathetic. In this highly personal travelogue, the author shamelessly thrusts himself into the action and emerges as the most fascinating eccentric of them all.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bill Richardson is a bestselling writer and broadcaster, host of "Richardson's Roundup" on CBC Radio One, and of "Booked on Saturday Night" on CBC-TV. He is the author of The Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and he lives in Vancouver.