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Novel.
"THE BANNONBRIDGE MUSICIANS is well-written, it's touching, it's full of life, and it's funny." — ANDRE VIGNEAULT, CBC Radio

"A rollicking story, well told." ─ WILLIAM FRENCH, Globe & Mail

"In THE BANNONBRIDGE MUSICIANS Raymond Fraser confronts the burden of unrealized potential and the way inertia and complacency stand between people and their dreams. His protagon... More

Novel.
"THE BANNONBRIDGE MUSICIANS is well-written, it's touching, it's full of life, and it's funny." — ANDRE VIGNEAULT, CBC Radio

"A rollicking story, well told." ─ WILLIAM FRENCH, Globe & Mail

"In THE BANNONBRIDGE MUSICIANS Raymond Fraser confronts the burden of unrealized potential and the way inertia and complacency stand between people and their dreams. His protagonists are good ol' boys from New Brunswick who have grand ambitions to strike it big in Toronto – if they could just bring themselves to go. Somehow, their grand plans always lose priority to getting drunk, chasing women, and generally raising hell in rural New Brunswick. There's inertia in small-town life; no matter how you try to leave, you can find yourself stuck, unable to escape the life you know. Fraser understands that and captures all the hope and despair and futility of this situation.
"Critics and boosters praise Fraser for presenting characters that readers don't just want to know, but feel they already do know. While most writers want that popular appeal, few would deny the special thrill that comes from drawing the praise of their peers. Fraser is one of those fortunate writers, in no small part due to Bannonbridge, able to have both. His work has drawn praise from a veritable who's who of Canadian literature, including Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, and Alden Nowlan (with whom he shared a long friendship).
"The Bannonbridge Musicians is a book of soul and spirit. Fraser's characters are real and vibrant, enjoyable and maddening. He writes what he knows – small-town Atlantic Canada and all the joys and miseries of life there – and brings it sharply into focus."
– TREVOR J. ADAMS & STEPHEN PATRICK CLARE, Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books

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