Fiction: Novels

South of the Border

South of the Border, Marlis Wesseler’s second novel, makes excellent use of a clever, deeply affecting plot twist. The story opens with 19-year-old Arlene (originally of Saskatoon) being roused from a deep sleep in her ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Second Sight

By George Szanto

George Szanto won justifiable praise in 1990 for The Underside of Stones, his first in a planned trilogy of novels set in the fictional landscape of Michocuaro, Mexico. The novel offered a probing of privileged ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What’s Remembered

By Arthur Motyer

Over the course of a late-night supper in a little restaurant in Toronto’s Yorkville district, Peter Lindley finds himself recounting his personal history to a mostly silent dinner companion, trying to give a sense of ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Self-Titled

By Geoffrey Brown

The trick to reading Self-Titled, Ottawa writer Geoffrey Brown’s second novel, is to surrender to the work’s possibilities. But be warned: Brown takes his readers on a demanding verbal midway ride, giving words to thoughts ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Nine Planets

By Edward Riche

Two big new novels from young, male Newfoundland authors appeared in bookstores this season, and they could hardly have less in common. Michael Winter’s The Big Why, despite its dabblings in high art and unorthodox ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Larry’s Party

By Carol Shields

If Laurence J. Weller’s life is a maze (and whose isn’t?), it is most definitely not the one of Greek legend, a complicated, malevolent labyrinth where a Minotaur strides angrily, wiping out brave soldiers. It ... Read More »

November 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Venous Hum

By Suzette Mayr

Venous Hum offers none of the soothing comfort evoked by the connotation of a rhythmically beating heart. Instead, Alberta author Suzette Mayr’s latest novel weaves an outrageously comical yet surreal tale of broken hearts, burning ... Read More »

November 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Adultery

By Richard B. Wright

This novel could be charged with false advertising. The one-word title screams sex, and the cover art of a dark-haired beauty in a car, her head thrown back in passionate abandonment, redefines steamy. “That’s a ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All That Matters

By Wayson Choy

All That Matters is Wayson Choy’s follow-up to his acclaimed first novel, The Jade Peony; both novels concern the Chens, a family caught up in the Chinese diaspora of the 1930s and ’40s.The Jade Peony ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wild Dogs

By Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys’ fourth novel, Wild Dogs, sure to be a hit with canine lovers everywhere, launches with a bold and poetic narrative voice. It is Alice, describing the circumstances of six strangers who’ve bonded over ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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