Fiction: Novels

Close to the Fire

A decade ago David Helwig was an Ontario novelist, poet, scriptwriter, and editor, publishing the substantial narratives of a writer in his prime. He now lives on Prince Edward Island, and Close to the Fire, ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Old Flames

By Kim Moritsugu

A one-time aspiring Broadway hoofer-turned-banking-flunky, Beth Robinson has quit her job to stay home and raise her two young daughters while her husband works in downtown Toronto. She cleans the basement, rakes the leaves, makes ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Getting Over Edgar

By Joan Barfoot

Joan Barfoot is a dependable chronicler of the malaise of women in our time. In her eighth novel the woman in question is a childless middle-aged widow in comfortable circumstances. Her belated journey of self-discovery ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Who Loved Jane Austen

By Ray Smith

The Montreal in Ray Smith’s The Man Who Loved Jane Austen is a dismal place: ice storms, a Ministry of Education that wants to regulate all aspects of academic life, old watering holes and drinking ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Elizabeth and After

By Matt Cohen

There is such deftness to this novel, such sureness of approach and lightness of writing, that an honest critic must begin with an apology. Sorry, dear reader, for the envy that infringes on the following; ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ At the Full and Change of the Moon

By Dionne Brand

Two powerfully realized spaces emerged in Dionne Brand’s extraordinary first novel, In Another Place, Not Here: the immigrant world at Toronto’s rough edges and the hardscrabble villages of the Caribbean. In At the Full and ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lost Between Houses

By David Gilmour

David Gilmour’s Lost Between Houses is the transitional tale of one 15-turning-16-year-old Simon Albright, a private school kid in 1960s Toronto. While the book is billed as a novel and not a memoir, much of ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Felix Roth

By Cary Fagan

Toronto author Cary Fagan has steadily developed a reputation as a writer of articulate and entertaining novels and short stories. Felix Roth, his eighth work of fiction, confirms Fagan as a writer of measurable talent. ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Swimming with Jonah

By Audrey Schulman

Audrey Schulman’s fictional debut, The Cage, traced the psychic breakthrough of a troubled magazine photographer assigned to shoot polar bears in the wild, from inside a metal cage. In bizarrely uneven prose, it nonetheless told ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

See the Child

By David Bergen

David Bergen has staked his literary claim to the turf of rural southern Manitoba, with its particular mix of French (read “earthy”) and Mennonite (read “repressed”) farming communities. In his last novel, he parsed a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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