ALL THE RAGE
A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue
by Brad Fraser
Doubleday Canada. 342 pages, $26.95
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All the Rage tells the story of how the young Bradley Fraser successfully channeled the emotions arising from an upbringing in an impoverished family, in which he endured emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, to become the award-winning Brad Fraser: “I knew that my upbringing had instilled a tremendous anger within me,” he writes at the end of the prologue, “and that if I didn’t find a way to channel that anger constructively it would end up directed at those around me or myself. I also knew it would trap me in the world I came from. Creative activities had always been the best way for me to channel my negative emotions and I knew my salvation would be with them.” It is that story that makes All the Rage read at times like an autobiographical novel.
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