Author: Patricia Robertson. Published by Biblioasis, 2000, 1st Edition. RARE: FLAT SIGNED by the Author on the title page, and then signed, dedicated and dated by the author again. Printed in Canada by Marquis, Quebec. Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor cover wear, and light stain on long-edge not affecting pages. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.75 X 5.75 inch, 158 pages.
THE GOLDFISH DANCER, is set in locales and time periods as varied as nineteenth century England, contemporary Spain, and postwar Alberta.
These five stories and two novellas introduce us to characters whose obsessions occupy the borderlands between fantasy and reality. In the title story, the half-black grand-daughter of slaves becomes an exotic dancer in New York during WWI and develops a passion for goldfish.
