Fiction: Novels

Any Known Blood

Lawrence Hill’s outstanding second novel, Any Known Blood, is narrated by Langston Cane V – son of a white mother and black father, in his late 30s, recently divorced, and working in Toronto as speech ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dr. Kalbfleisch & the Chicken Restaurant

By Cordelia Strube

It’s one of those dog days of summer. Sitting and sweating on the back porch, through the thirsty leaves of the overgrown cherry tree we watch the man from across the back alley – the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Boardwalk

By Joseph Kertes

Joseph Kertes’ second novel for adults is an interesting hybrid: part road novel, part unabashed romance, mediated by its protagonists being typical Canadians counterpointed against a sleazy U.S. setting. Clyde and Eddie are brothers from ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Soon to Be a Motion Picture

By Warren Dunford

Art and stardom have always been cousins, but in the 20th century, the glamour phenomenon has done much to confuse and conflate these two concepts. In a post-Warhol, cult-of-celebrities era, art does not catapult artists ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe

By Sandra Gulland

Sandra Gulland’s fictional trilogy of the life of Josephine Bonaparte began with The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B, published in 1995. Her second novel, Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe, continues in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ghost of Understanding

By Jean Smith

Jean Smith is an artist: like all genuine talents of the maverick variety, she feels maddeningly and wholly entitled to our attention, and she hasn’t an atom of self-consciousness about relating events and displaying emotions ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sword of Goliath

By Martin S. Cohen

Martin S. Cohen’s third novel is a rambling, discursive mystery that sends its kindly protagonist, Michael Prager, on a search to uncover an ancient secret. Shaped by the minutiae of Jewish lore and erudite biblical ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bitter Taste of Time

By Béa Gonzalez

It’s a familiar literary scenario: in a lush, troubled country lives a family of women. Their men have all died tragically or abandoned them scandalously. The iron-willed matriarch maintains order through numerous disasters, but her ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Boy of Good Breeding

By Miriam Toews

Tell me, is there a Canadian, male or female, who doesn’t know what a Zamboni is? Miriam Toews, in her second novel A Boy of Good Breeding, would have us believe that in spring 1996 ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Widow for One Year

By John Irving

“My novels aren’t ideas...I begin with the characters, which leads me to the problems that the characters are prone to have, which yields a story – every time.” The speaker here is Ruth Cole, one ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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