Kit’s Law

In her debut novel, Newfoundland native Donna Morrissey, who now lives in Halifax, tells us more than we need to know about her characters. The novel establishes its setting – 1950s outport Newfoundland – quickly, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dorothy L’Amour

By Lynn Crosbie

When B.C’s own Playboy celebrity Dorothy Stratten was killed by her ex-lover in 1980, the Vancouver newspapers reported the facts of her murder with something of a subtle agenda. They played up her innocence and ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Then Again

By Elyse Friedman

This comic first novel by Toronto writer Elyse Friedman is the literary equivalent of a garage band gig: what it lacks in subtlety, it gains in energy, velocity, and sheer rude exuberance. Admittedly, these are ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Good House

By Bonnie Burnard

Comparisons with Alice Munro are inevitable. Bonnie Burnard has staked out similar territory, in this case, a Western Ontario town north of London up toward Lake Huron. Like Munro, Burnard has made her name with ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Mark of the Angel

By Nancy Huston

If Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces asks, “can there be poetry after the Holocaust?” Nancy Huston’s latest novel asks, “can there be music?” While Huston is less swirling in her sentences, less abandoned in her plot ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Day of the Dog-tooth Violets

By Christina Kilbourne

The list of chapter titles in Ontario writer Christina Kilbourne’s debut novel reads like a poem: “Salted Fish, Smoked Fish, Pickled Fish”; “A Successful Excursion”; “Bad Eyes, A Son for Hamar.” That poetic sensibility carries ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cold Fear

By Rick Mofina

When 10-year-old Paige Baker wanders off a camping trail to look for her dog, she has no idea of the danger she’s put herself in. Her parents, Doug and Emily, are so wrapped up in ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Making a Killing

By Warren Dunford

The relatively recent fad for irony – its use and misuse – can make it hard to know how to read some fiction. Like equally tricky efforts to be satirical, sometimes irony is evident, delicious, ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ditch

By Hal Niedzviecki

Voice is visceral, it’s of the guts, whereas the daily tinkering of today’s society is primarily cerebral: we think more than we feel, we count more than we sing. To find voice, when voice is ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-cha Years

By Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco

Franciso Ibañez-Carrasco’s first novel is a beautiful and often difficult book about searching for the source of one’s humanity. Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers follows Camilo, a strong-willed gay Chilean who escapes Santiago for Vancouver ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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