Fiction: Novels

Write Across Canada: Mapping the Country in 19 Chapters

Ever since literature started imagining the sex lives of ordinary people, readers have been flocking to stories that portray couples working out the nuts and bolts of day-to-day romance. Take the confused Bruce, half of ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

4 X 4

By Wayne Tefs

Wayne Tefs’ eighth novel starts out in a bar at the Winnipeg airport on the afternoon of Good Friday. Clinton Dokic is waiting for a flight home to Thompson, Manitoba, where his wife is about ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Industrial Magic

By Kelley Armstrong

Casting spells is quaint, but for material boys and girls, conjuring up private jets, SUVs, and luxury hotels is even more enchanting. Why not use magic to make something other than mere coins appear out ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off

By John Lavery

If John Lavery’s stories weren’t so thrillingly careening as to resist description by a single word, “frenetic” might be a good choice. But it’s not. You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off is quick in pacing ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What We All Long For

By Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand opens her latest novel with a wide shot of Toronto. A city at once mythic and ordinary, virtual yet earthily corporeal, it hovers above the 43rd parallel. Flight paths and Internet signals cross ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Times Have Been Modern

By Elisabeth Harvor

Elisabeth Harvor’s second novel opens with protagonist Kay Oleski on the verge of realizing her first adolescent sexual experience when the moment is ruined by the unexpected return home of her mother. In the next ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Eleanor Rigby

By Douglas Coupland

There’s a brief moment in Douglas Coupland’s latest novel when he draws the reader’s attention to some peonies, cool and white and beautiful, placed in a room. They’re a fitting flower for a Coupland novel; ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

West Wind, North Chatter

By Deanna Kent-McDonald

It seems Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw’s not the only one typing away her modern malaise. In Deanna Kent-McDonald’s first novel, West Wind, North Chatter, the entire town of Grand Prairie, Alberta, is busy ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Alien House

By Élise Turcotte, Sheila Fischman

Reading Elise Turcotte’s The Alien House is a little like overhearing the thoughts of one of Ingmar Bergman’s nearly silent film heroines. Like Liv Ullman in The Hour of the Wolf, Turcotte’s nameless narrator finds ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Displaced Persons

By Margie Taylor

According to its cover, Displaced Persons is based on a true story. For the uninitiated it’s difficult to tell where fact and fiction diverge. The novel’s narrator, a woman named Alex Cooper, is a writer ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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