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Sylvia Fraser

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March 08, 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Sylvia Fraser (born 8 March 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist, journalist and travel writer. Fraser was educated at the University of Western Ontario. In her fifty year career as a journalist, she has written hundreds of articles, beginning as a Feature Writer for The Toronto Star Weekly (1957-68), and continuing with articles for many other magazines and newspapers including the Globe & Mail, Saturday Night, Chatelaine, the Walrus and Toronto Life. She taught creative writing for many years at Banff Centre and at various university workshops. She has participated in extensive media tours, given lectures and readings throughout Canada, the United States, Britain and Sweden. She served on the Arts Advisory Panel to Canada...more

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Books by Sylvia Fraser

Average rating: 3.51 · 99 ratings · 12 reviews · 19 distinct works

	My Father's House 3.51 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Green Labyrinth: Exploring the Mysteries of the Amazon 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Pandora by Sylvia Fraser, Lola Lemire Tostevin 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Rope in the Water: A Pilgrimage to India 2.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Ancestral Suitcase 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Quest For The Fourth Monkey: A Thinking Person's Guide To Psychic And Spiritual Phenomena 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Berlin Solstice 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Emperor's Virgin 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Candy Factory 1.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Book of Strange 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating:

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“As a child, I survived by forgetting. Later, the amnesia became a problem as large as the one it was meant to conceal. However, I did not remember my past until the homemade bomb was defused, until the evil was contained, until I was stable enough and happy enough that sorrow or anger or regret or pain was overwhelmed by joy at my release. To reach this state, I needed the help of friends and healers. This I had in abundance. (252)”
― Sylvia Fraser, My Father's House

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“I wrap my mind around pain till it smothers in its own scream. (101)”
― Sylvia Fraser, My Father's House

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“Imagine this: imagine you discover that for many years another person intimately shared your life without your knowing it. Oh, you had your suspicions – the indented pillow beside you, the toothpaste with a thumbprint that wasn’t yours. Now it all fits, you know it’s true, but during all that time you never actually saw this person. And so it is with me. She was my shadow-self, unknown to me. She knew passion where I knew only inhibition, then grief where I knew guilt, then terror where I knew anger. She monitored my every thought, manipulated my actions, aided my survival and sabotaged my dreams, for she was I and I was she. (228)”
― Sylvia Fraser, My Father's House