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The Paradise Eater [textual record, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1971-1995, predominant 1984-1989.

Reference:

R15606-16-3-E

Type of material:

Sound recordings, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4933885

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John Ralston Saul fonds

Novels

The Paradise Eater
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Sub-series includes:

73 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1971-1995, predominant 1984-1989.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

0.6 m of textual records.
1 audio cassette.

Language of material:

English

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The sub-series comprises records relating to John Ralston Saul's novel, "The Paradise Eater", first published in 1988. It holds drafts, research material, correspondence, publicity and promotional material, and reviews. Successive drafts, under its working and final titles, "The Milk of Paradise" and "The Paradise Eater", include editorial notations by John O'Keeffe, Patricia Parkin, and others. His research material covers international crime, the drug trade, sex industry, and elites and government in Thailand. Its publishing, editing, and reader response is revealed in correspondence with Random House, Patricia Parkin (Grafton Books), Michael Shaw (Curtis Brown Agency), Normand O'Reilly, Graham Greene, Robertson Davies, James R. English, Julien Gracq, Susan Kepner, Henri Coulonges, Monique Back, Pat Schilling, Claire Mowat, Peter Newman, and George Woodcock, among others.

Publicity and promotional material includes correspondence, advertisements (including an audio recording of a radio ad), and press releases, and refers its winning of the Italian Premio Letterario Internazionale (Modena Prize) in 1990. Public reception is also revealed through reviews and articles in "The New York Times Book Review", "Publishers Weekly", "The Washington Post", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Agence France Press", "Paris Match", "Le Nouvel Observateur", "Le Figaro", "Le Monde", "The Financial Times", "The Mail on Sunday", "The Spectator", "Maclean's", "La Presse", "Le Soleil", "Books in Canada", "Ottawa Citizen", "Toronto Star", "The Province", "La Vanguardia" (Spain), "El Diario Montanes" (Spain), Svenska Dagbladet (Czechoslovakia), "The Nation" (Thailand), "Bangkok Post" (Thailand), and "Matichor Daily" (Thailand), among others.

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Sound recordings

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Audio-visual item no. assigned by LAC [R15606] 34852AV

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Textual records

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Volume [R15606]

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34--36;

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118;

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