Fiction: Novels

Chump Change

This is a funny book, though it may fetch bigger laughs than mine from the generation whose idiom it speaks and whose purported ennui it celebrates. Chump Change is a coming-of-age novel with a hero ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kerouac’s Ghost

By Ken McGoogan

Back in 1993, Ken McGoogan, literary editor of the Calgary Herald, published a novel called Visions of Kerouac. This was an ebullient, unapologetically Kerouac-obsessed coming-of-age story. Its hero and main narrator, Frankie McCracken, was a ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Alias Grace

By Margaret Atwood

A new novel by Margaret Atwood will sell, and be discussed, regardless of its critical reception and, one suspects, largely regardless of the book itself. Such are the wages of fame. And while I am ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Oyster

By Janette Turner Hospital

A world both sear and voluptuous, dark and light, harsh and merciful – that’s the terrain of Australian-born Ontario writer Janette Turner Hospital’s new novel, Oyster. Set in the Queensland, Australia outback in a kind ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Venetian’s Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Transformation

By Nick Bantock

The author of the very successful Griffin & Sabine trilogy, British-born B.C. islander Nick Bantock, has written The Venetian’s Wife, a novel that is part picture book, part e-mail correspondence. But if the methods of ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Starplex

By Robert J. Sawyer

Starplex, by Thornhill, Ontario writer Robert J. Sawyer, involves the discovery of a new alien race and an apparently abandoned network of “shortcuts” – hyperspace portals that allow spacecraft to whisk about the universe. Sawyer, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You Went Away

By Timothy Findley

Ahead of anything else, there is, in the matter of Timothy Findley’s You Went Away, a minor and yet nevertheless nagging question of classification. Why, that question goes, is You Went Away being introduced into ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ostend

By François Gravel; Sheila Fischman; trans.

The wise Andy Warhol once said that the surest sign that one is a member of the bourgeoisie is a fear of appearing to be a member of the bourgeoisie.Montreal writer and teacher François Gravel’s ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lesser Blessed

By Richard Van Camp

Richard Van Camp’s The Lesser Blessed is Bildungsroman as holocaust, Holden Caulfield with sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Set in the aptly named fictional community of Fort Simmer, N.W.T., it tells the story of ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue Limbo

By Terence M. Green

Terence M. Green’s new novel, Blue Limbo, gets off to a fast start. When we first meet Green’s protagonist, Toronto police detective Mitch Helwig, he’s blowing up a drug kingpin’s warehouse singlehandedly. The opening scene ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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