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Lost in’ North America, The
aginary Canadian in the American
prea. John Gray. ‘Tntonbooks,
17.95,
LE ‘Love Mom. An Irreverent
istory of the Tattoo. John Gray. Key
rter Books, $24.95,

UTHOR= OF a half-dozen
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er, once the CBC-TV Journal's
ost’. eccentric contributor,
fancouver writer John Gray has
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Gray's search for the “imaginary
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usual downbeat deferential “Who the
heck are we, anyway?” editorial
digressions on the “Canadian identi-
ly” except the relationship between
the target and the shooter. Last in
North America crackles with insights
that consistently play against the con-
ventional Canadian wisdom at every
turn of the page.

From the “two solitudes” to the
CBC, the abolishing of the federal
government to Canadian sexuality,
Gray's pointed wit pops one stereo-
typed red and white ballooo alter
another, including the notions that
“Canada is a ‘young’ country,"
“Canada lacks ‘history, "and that
“Canadians are a docile people.” On
the latter subject, he proposes: “We
are not, We ure a truculent, rather vio-
lent people, and know it — which is
why we have tougher gun laws than
the United States, a country that takes
a more naively optimistic view of
human individuality.”

Jeez, we sound so romantic and
dangerous you could almost be, well,
proud, especially when Gray gets to

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