Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Wally

By Greg Kramer

Wally Greene, closing in on his fifties, spends his days in his workshop building props for Vancouver’s Phoenix Theatre. It’s 1987, Vancouver is deep in post-Expo torpor, and Wally’s life is suspended between two women ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Look for Me

By Edeet Ravel

This is the sophomore installment in Edeet Ravel’s Tel Aviv trilogy, themed around life in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her brilliant first novel in the series, Ten Thousand Lovers, published in 2003, met with terrific international ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Skinny

By Ibi Kaslik

A novel in which anorexia plays a major role is at risk of becoming pathologized, symptoms of illness overwhelming the narrative. This is not the case in Ibi Kaslik’s beautifully written first novel. In the ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sojourn

By Alan Cumyn

Young Ramsey Crome is a Canadian private mired in the trenches of the First World War. Knee deep in mud, surrounded by exploding shells and dying friends, he’s certain he will be blown to bits ... Read More »

April 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels