He returned to Montreal in 1980, and two years later moved to Vancouver. Upon his retirement Ross lived in Greece and then in Spain. Ross's later novels, The Well, Whir of Gold, and Sawbones Memorial, continue his exploration of prairie life and its power to challenge as well as sustain its inhabitants. In 1946 he returned briefly to Winnipeg before settling in Montreal, where he continued in banking until his retirement in 1968. From 1942 until 1946 Ross served with the Canadian army in London, England. The prairie is the major setting for his two collections of short fiction, The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories and The Race and Other Stories. In 1941 he published his first novel, As For Me and My House, with its evocation of prairie life during the Depression. After working in many small-town banks in Saskatchewan, he transferred to a bank in Winnipeg in 1933. He dropped out of school after grade eleven to work in a bank. About the Author: Sinclair Ross was born on a homestead near Shelbrooke in northern Saskatchewan in 1908. As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross As For Me and My House is an essential Canadian work-a precise and compelling portrait of our culture, our psyche, and the nature of contemporary art itself, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. It is one of Canada's great novels and a landmark in modern fiction.

Atmospheric, intimate, and richly observed, As For Me and My House is a moving meditation on the bittersweet nature of human relationships, on the bonds that tie people together and the undercurrents of feeling that can tear them apart. In the windswept town of Horizon, an unamed diarist paints a vivid and enthralling picture of prairie life in the Depression era. As For Me and My House is an essential Canadian work-a precise and compelling portrait of our culture, our psyche, and the nature of contemporary art itself, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic.

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