The Healer

The last time Greg Hollingshead published a book it was The Roaring Girl, a collection of stories that went on to win the 1995 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Excavating the review I wrote of ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Museum Guard

By Howard Norman

When we see a person in a painting from another time and place, that person can become almost present to us, stirring thoughts and memories in our own time and place. In The Museum Guard ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Belle of the Bayou

By Joanna Goodman

At first glance it looks like you could make a female buddy flick out of Joanna Goodman’s first novel Belle of the Bayou. You know the kind of movie: a sort of funny “Thelma and ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Natural History

By Keith Oatley

Keith Oatley, author of The Case of Emily V, has written a novel that can be approached on many levels. Inspired by George Eliot’s Middlemarch, it is a romance, a historical fiction, and a tale ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ingratitude

By Ying Chen, Carol Volk, trans.

Have you ever wondered how people will react when you die? Shanghai-born Montrealer Ying Chen takes this concept to its very limits in her third novel, Ingratitude. Twenty-five-year-old Yan Zi decides to take her own ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Out of My Skin

By Tessa McWatt

It’s rare that a reader is privileged with a protagonist as authentic as Daphne Baird. Tessa McWatt’s debut, Out of My Skin, makes us painfully aware of Daphne’s confusion as she searches for her identity ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Party Favours

By Jean Doe

Weird town, this Ottawa. A town where older reporters call younger reporters “my young friend” and shadowy sources say things like “time is of the essence.” A town where the women are either leggy or ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Drifting Year

By Dany Laferriere

Like all of Dany Laferrière’s autobiographical novels, there’s a whimsical nonchalance, a combination of simplicity and circumspection, that tends to underwhelm readers. Perhaps this has to do with the kind of temporality that Laferrière explores ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Down Among the Dead Men

By Dany Laferriere

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Trial of Passion

By William Deverell

Arthur Beachamp, 62, is a legend in his own time for his brilliant work as a defence attorney. But he has a humiliating secret. Known publicly for his formidable power in the courtroom, Beachamp (pronounced Beecham) is ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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