Download or read book Grab Bag written by Derek McCormack and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third title on Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series, Grab Bag is comprised of two interrelated novels, Dark Rides and Wish Book, from one of Canada's most important young writers. Both books are set in the same small rural city, in different eras (1950s, 1930s), each characterised by McCormack's spare and elliptical prose. Anyone interested in the more wicked, crafty and inventive forms of Canadian writing would be well advised to spend time with McCormack' - Toronto Star'