Fiction: Novels

Spirits in the Wires

Ottawa writer Charles de Lint writes mythic fiction, bringing magical elements into the world we know and taking our world into fantastic realms – the borderlands, the places in between, the otherworlds. In his Newford ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Magician’s Wife

By Brian Moore

You would never describe Brian Moore as a flashy writer, and this is a good thing. His style is reserved and observant, his themes large and universal, but exquisitely localized: this is someone who pulls ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Henderson’s Spear

By Ronald Wright

Ronald Wright was New Faced by Knopf Canada in 1997 with his first novel, A Scientific Romance, a dark and witty time-travelling indictment of everybody. Wright’s face was not exactly new: he was kissing 50 ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Body’s Place

By Elise Turcotte,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Montreal novelist Elise Turcotte tells a chilling summer story about teenagers in The Body’s Place. School is out and 15-year-old Hélène, her slightly younger sister Lisa, and their 5-year-old brother have to find things to ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Monkey Beach

By Eden Robinson

Haisla-Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson’s first book was a collection of four stories, Traplines. In 1996, it opened to New York raves and Canadian reserve (pun intended): pretty good for a beginner. Her subsequent New Face ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Atonement

By Gaétan Soucy,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Gaétan Soucy’s novel Atonement is as carefully put together and as disturbing as a painting by Belgian artist René Magritte. Although the surrealist painter meticulously represents a familiar world, Magritte’s universe, like Soucy’s, seems ordered ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Going Down Swinging

By Billie Livingston

Billie Livingston’s first novel sympathetically witnesses the precarious existence of a single mother and her seven-year-old daughter Grace in the early 1970s. Briefly a teacher, Eilleen Hoffmann has fallen into the service of alcohol, pills, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Wyoming

By Douglas Coupland

I’m one of those people who thought Douglas Coupland’s Generation X (1991) was interesting writing and not just sociologically hip Zeitgeist charting. Nearly a decade, and a half-dozen Coupland books later, Gen X (I reread ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

St. Stephen’s

By Sky Gilbert

Readers may not like this book, some for its disturbing content – especially its evangelical support of pederasty – others for its hectoring tone, but there is pleasure to discover if you’ve the stomach for ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cue the Dead Guy

By H. Mel Malton

Cue the Dead Guy is the second mystery featuring Polly Deacon, the underemployed puppet maker and born-again rural-dweller who lives in the fictional Ontario cottage country of Kuskawa. H. Mel Malton’s first Polly Deacon mystery, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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