Fiction: Novels

Two Ends of Sleep

In Two Ends Of Sleep, the first novel from Vancouver artist Lizard Jones, dykes with names like Coral and Eagle cruise Commercial Drive, sipping cappuccino and cashing their unemployment cheques. Occasionally they create feminist, anti-racist ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Someplace to Be Flying

By Charles de Lint

If you had to put a label on this latest Charles de Lint novel, science fiction would come the closest. But it’s not the sci-fi stuff we’re used to, where the familiar world is swept ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flesh and Gold

By Phyllis Gotlieb

Toronto author Phyllis Gotlieb has for decades been producing internationally successful novels, which, I think it’s safe to say, the majority of well-read Canadians have never heard of, let alone read. Lacking the mainstream crossover ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Her Smoke Rose up

By James R. Wallen

If Her Smoke Rose Up were a face, it would be pierced; if it were a film (rather than a novel about one), it would feature gratuitous sex and glamourized violence. So what is there ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Delirium

By Douglas Cooper

Those looking forward to their reacquaintance with Izzy Darlow, the neurotic fairy-tale raconteur of Douglas Cooper’s enchanting 1992 novel Amnesia, are likely to be disappointed by the author’s muddled sophomore effort, the aptly titled Delirium.For ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Freedom’s Just Another Word

By Dakota Hamilton

In Dakota Hamilton’s first novel, Freedom’s Just Another Word, Maggie Hoffer is accused of murdering her husband and awaits trial in a maximum security jail. Her husband was hotter for his Harley than for Maggie ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Handless Maiden

By Loranne Brown

It’s a good thing Mariah Standhoffer is a survivor because there’s an awful lot for her to endure in Loranne Brown’s first novel The Handless Maiden. As a young girl, Mariah is routinely sodomized by ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Salvage King, Ya! (a Herky Jerky Picaresque)

By Mark Anthony Jarman

Mark Anthony Jarman’s first novel, Salvage King, Ya!, is subtitled “A Herky Jerky Picaresque.” And herky jerky it is. The story is delivered through a series of brief elliptical paragraphs that hang together in numbered ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rare Birds

By Edward Riche

Dave Purcell’s entrepreneurial response to being restructured out of fisheries is a brilliant little bistro in Push Cove on the outskirts of St. John’s. Though he hoped to attract the city’s emerald set, and prospering ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Taste of a Man

By Slavenka Drakulic,Christina Pribichevich Zoric, trans.

Call it the revenge of the edible woman. Almost 30 years after Margaret Atwood’s Marian McAlpin baked a cake in the shape of a gal – complete with bright pink icing dress and chocolate curls ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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