5. "TRAMMEL UP THE CONSEQUENCE", A NOVEL BY ROBIN WOOD

PUBLICATION DATE

Robin Wood's novel Trammel up the Consequence was published on 01 June 2011.

The price for the novel is CAD$19 and about $13 for S&H. Please contact Gary McCallum for exact shipping rates. Rates to the USA are $13 but, curiously, differ within Canada depending on the recipient's postal code. Payment by cheque or money order from within Canada; by cheque or IMO from the USA; by IMO from elsewhere.

See the following "Announcement" for ordering information.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT (April 2010)

As many of you are aware Robin Wood died on 18 December 2009 at the age of 78 after an exceptionally productive and engaged life. Robin's creativity and industry were not restricted to film criticism. He also wrote novels and screenplays, which were of a piece with his film criticism, both being centrally concerned with the ways in which the current structures of society are inimical to the full flowering of people's lives, are inimical to, indeed, Life itself, as Robin (and Dr. Leavis) defined that term in their respective writings.

Robin's estate will be privately publishing one of Robin's novels, the one that appears to have been most personal to him and, perhaps for that reason, the one he was proudest of. The novel will be sold by reservation, and publication is scheduled for 01 June 2011. The novel will be published in quality paperback with an introduction by his long-time friend John Anderson. The price has yet to be determined (although it is expected to be in the vicinity of CAD$30.00 including shipping).

Robin Wood on the trunk of David Elliott's car, 
outside Film House, Queen's University, 
copyright Gary McCallum 1972

For those who wish to reserve a copy of the novel, please notify either Gary McCallum or Richard Lippe by means of the contact information below or the comment box on this blog. Once the price has been determined, purchasers will be notified and payment requested in advance of shipment.

Gary J. McCallum                    Richard Lippe
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Toronto, Ontario                      Canada, M4Y 1B5
Canada, M5A 4E5                  T: 416-964-3534
T: 416-862-7435                     E. rlippe@yorku.ca.
E: garyjmccallum@gmail.com

This weblog will from time to time post further information about the novel, its publication, and its author.

WARNING: The novel that will be published is entitled Trammel up the Consequence. In this novel Robin's preoccupations were expressed – one wants to say released – in a most graphic manner that may not be acceptable to some readers.
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6. PRE-PUBLICATION COMMENTS ON TRAMMEL UP ...

Galleys of the novel have been distributed to various luminaries for their pre-publication comments. Some of the comments received so far follow:

"I just wish that I had lived long enough to read such a compelling novel": F.R. Leavis

"Robin's words are music to my ears": Igor Stravinsky 

"This wild, sensual novel gives new meaning to the phrase 'polymorphous perverse'. Now, if I could only remember what the old meaning was": Sigmund Freud

"Why it's nothing but smut, one long paean to sex of every ilk and kind. Nothing but smut. Wish I had written it": Henry Miller

"Actually, I kind of liked it": Mother Grundy

"Funny, tragic, magnificent but needs more glockenspiel": Gustave Mahler

"That the court of public opinion has not previously had the opportunity of appointing this supreme novel to literature's highest bench is the second greatest injustice I can think of": Robert Bork

I would be only too proud to associate my name with this super novel should it be made into a film: Alan Smithee

"I don't care what Wood's damn novel says. I did not have sexual relations with that woman": William Jefferson Clinton

In a Spiritual Moment
Robin Wood at Film House, Queen's University, copyright Gary McCallum 1972