Fiction: Novels

The Holding

In her first novel, Merilyn Simonds offers us fusty historical fiction with a fresh psychological twist and a poetic sensibility. The story alternates between the journey and travails of Margaret MacBayne, a Scottish emigrant who ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Whole Night Through

By Christiane Frenette, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Christiane Frenette’s novel The Whole Night Through is proof that it’s not the story that’s important, it’s the way you tell it. One November afternoon a dying moose comes out of the woods into Jeanne’s ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Gradual Ruin

By Robert Hilles

The irony of Robert Hilles’ second novel is that the one thing it lacks is poetry – ironic because Hilles is also a Governor General’s Award-winning poet. The writing here is spare, unadorned, at times ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An English Gentleman

By Sky Gilbert

This year marks the centenary of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. None of the planned commemorations of this event is likely to be as interesting as An English Gentleman, Sky Gilbert’s fourth novel and easily his ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Galveston

By Paul Quarrington

Paul Quarrington’s lovely and amazing ninth novel is about a motley group of hurricane chasers who encounter the Force Five disturbance of their dreams. In that sense, this novel is the tale of an oddball ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nine-Tenths Unseen: A Psychological Mystery

By Kenneth J. Harvey

I hope it’s not giving away too much to say that much of the “psychological mystery” of Kenneth J. Harvey’s new novel is which partner in this dark tale of a couple in an isolated ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Muck

By N.J. Dodic

N.J. Dodic, in his second novel, Muck, adds an intriguing wrinkle to the convention of basing a novel around the interplay between a main text and its “editor’s” footnotes, which occurs most famously in Pale ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Cure for Death by Lightning

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Halfway through Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s debut novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, I flipped to the publication data expecting to confirm my suspicions that the author was born sometime around the Great Depression. She wasn’t. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Photographer’s Sweethearts

By Diana Hartog

There is much that is praiseworthy in The Photographer’s Sweethearts, the first novel written by the poet Diana Hartog. As one might expect, given the reputation Hartog’s earned with her three volumes of poetry, her ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fall on Your Knees

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

In a 1990 interview, Ann-Marie MacDonald said she is haunted by “the mythic place called Cape Breton,” and that her imagination projects “an aura of magic, of mystery” onto its landscape and residents. Predictably, her ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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