Five Legs Author:Graeme Gibson "Anansi proudly present this new edition of *Five Legs,* the groundbreaking novel by Graeme Gibson. — First published by Anansi in 1969, *Five Legs* was a breakthrough for Canadian experimental fiction, selling 1,0000 copies in its 1st week. At the time Scott Symons wrote that '*Five Legs* has more potent writing in it, page for page, than any o... more »ther young Canadian novel that I can think of. Or indeed any young American novel--including Pynchon and Farina. ' This was new, fresh, unique writing in 1969, and it still is.
*Five Legs* is the subversive tal of 2 guilt-ridden young men, Lucan Crackell and Felix Oswald--one a professor, the other his student--caught in the grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its emotional web-spinning and sexual torments. Gibson captures both their mortifications and their spirited resistance to all things WASP, themselves included, in prose that is at once fluid, disjointed, and hilarious. Essential reading for any Canlit junkie, and quite a trip."« less