Flat

The apartment as metaphor looms large in Mark Macdonald’s debut novel Flat. Metaphors for human isolation and the soul-crushing regularity of modern architecture, bird’s nests for disconnected voyeurs – apartment buildings dwarf the novel’s unnamed ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dominion of Wyley Mcfadden

By Scott Gardiner

On a mysterious mission from Toronto to Alberta, physician-turned-poacher Wyley McFadden picks up a mysterious female hitchhiker somewhere north of Lake Superior. It has all the makings of a good road novel, and Gardiner has ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Excessive Joy Injures the Heart

By Elisabeth Harvor

It’s an informal genre but a recognizable one: the novel of a second coming rather than a coming of age, of a still-young woman forced to begin again after the failure of a marriage spanning ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Possibility of Dreaming on a Night Without Stars

By Michael Kaufman

Michael Kaufman’s ponderously titled first novel is not entirely successful, but it isn’t marred by any glaring ineptitude or any single, tragic flaw. Rather, the writing includes both small triumphs and moments of awkwardness as ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What She Can Remember

By Donna Dunlop

Singer-songwriter Donna Dunlop’s first novel, What She Can Remember reads more like a personal memoir than a work of fiction. Set in the mid- to late 1960s and written in both past and present tense, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Family Man

By Stephen Zeifman

Casey is a guy who seems to have it all: a successful Toronto architecture practice; a smart, lovely wife; a lively teenage daughter; and two fine sons. Why isn’t Casey happy? He’s not sure, but ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask

By Jim Munroe

In his first novel, 26-year-old Jim Munroe has created a genuinely hip, young, and urban tale. Forget about all the other fiction that poses as slick and cool, forget the stylish authors that promise to ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Cargo of Orchids

By Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave’s first novel in over 10 years has everything her readers might expect from her: rich, lyrical language, bizarre imagery, and an intimate familiarity with the state-sanctioned indignities inflicted on prison inmates. Musgrave’s anonymous ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Fit Month for Dying

By M.T. Dohaney

From page one, A Fit Month for Dying, the final novel in a trilogy chronicling the trials of the Corrigan family, promises heartbreak. “Sooner or later life’ll break the heart of ye,” warns Bertha Corrigan, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Charisma

By Margaret Christakos

How do you like your sex? In Charisma, first-time novelist Margaret Christakos fills the pages with detailed and rather poetic descriptions of sex between women and women, men and women, men and men – with ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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