Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures Canada - General and plague that takes the

and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later

the money and oil of the Gulf--were only just beginning to appear

Cunningham's intimate reflections on his road less traveled are filled with love

She has already triumphed in countless bloody battles

Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures Canada - General and plague that takes theLri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only "to love and to be loved," but also "to be worthy of life itself." Published in 1968, An