Fiction: Novels

Opium Dreams

The narrator of Margaret Gibson’s first novel, Opium Dreams, is “grown-poet and some-time short-story writer Maggie Glass,” a Canada Council grantee who has published “one award-winning short-story book and one award-winning poetry book.” Maggie confesses, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Keel Kissing Bottom

By Elizabeth de Freitas

This powerfully strange first novel by Toronto-based Elizabeth de Freitas traces the aqueous odyssey of a Nova Scotian teenager who abandons her maritime birthplace to defy fate in relatively landlocked Toronto. Full of mythic incident ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Silence Descends: The End of the Information Age, 2000–2500

By George Case

Vancouver writer George Case’s first novel isn’t really a novel at all but a brief speculative history which, from the cultural utopia of the year 2500, looks back over time to the hysterical info-blather of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Scientific Romance

By Ronald Wright

It’s perhaps fitting that Ronald Wright, best known for his travel writing, has chosen time travel as the subject of his first novel. In A Scientific Romance, a young British archeologist named David Lambert acquires ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ My Darling Dead Ones

By Erika de Vasconcelos

“Death resolves so little, in the end,” Erika de Vasconcelos writes at the end of her wonderfully assured first novel. “And I understand that none of my suffering is new. There is a comfort in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Downhill Chance

By Donna Morrissey

Donna Morrissey’s first novel, Kit’s Law, was enthusiastically acclaimed by readers and garnered a handsome clutch of awards and nominations, making it a daunting act to follow. Downhill Chance is a near match.Its spell takes ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

By Kate Taylor

There’s been plenty of anticipation for Kate Taylor’s Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, though not necessarily the kind a first-time novelist wants. Taylor is The Globe and Mail’s well-known theatre critic, respected by readers, ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Ratz Are Nice (PSP)

By Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

In Vancouver’s street punk culture, West Coast writer and performer Lawrence Braithwaite has found both the subject and the esthetic with which to further exploit the stylistic territory he began exploring in his 1994 novella ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Penelope’s Way

By Blanche Howard

At the age of 70, Penelope Stephens creates a list of life goals. On reviewing them, she decides to find the meaning of life rather than take up snowboarding. It is meant to be a ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I’m Frankie Sterne

By Dave Margoshes

At various times a jazz musician, freedom fighter, beatnik, and logger, Frankie Sterne drifts through mid-20th-century North America without making much of an impression, either on the people he encounters or on the reader.The book ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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