Sparrow Nights

David Gilmour’s latest novel may not win him a pack of new readers, but his fans will think it just fine. Sparrow Nights covers some perennial Gilmour themes – male desire and unrequited sexual obsession ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Am I Disturbing You?

By Anne Hébert, Sheila Fischman, trans.

The problem with pursuing the ineffable is that nine times out 10 what you produce is the ineffectual, and I’m afraid this novel does not represent, for Anne Hébert, that elusive 10th time. What we ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Bench on Which to Rest: The Diary of an Emigrant, a Novel

By Elena Maccaferri

A Bench on Which to Rest by Elena Mac-caferri is a simple tale, simply told. In a little more than 100 pages, Climene recounts her journey from her village in the hills of northern Italy ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Girls Around the House

By M.A.C. Farrant

In her sixth book, Girls Around the House, Sidney, B.C., writer M.A.C. Farrant has created an alter-ego in Marion – fiction writer, mother of three teenage children, and wife – who banters and kvetches amiably ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Long Stretch

By Linden MacIntyre

Anyone who has spent time in Cape Breton will recognize the presence of ghosts. The island is a region rich in history, mired in tradition, and full of secret stories that all the locals know. ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Visible Amazement

By Gale Zoë Garnett

According to the publisher, Visible Amazement is “a novel that will redefine Canadian fiction.” While this is almost certainly not the case, it’s nonetheless fast-paced and breezy, a funny coming-of-age chronicle that’s big on story, ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tree Tattoo

By Karen Rivers

Karen Rivers tells an old, old story (middle-aged man, much younger woman), so banal and generic that the three at the centre are identified only by their roles: girl, man, wife. The girl is a ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Pornographer’s Poem: A Novel

By Michael Turner

The framework for Michael Turner’s novel The Pornographer’s Poem is that of an interview with an unnamed male narrator, the maker of pornographic films in Vancouver. An iconoclastic auteur, transgressor of the boundaries between pornography ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Adultery Handbook

By Carol Malyon

Anybody who buys Carol Malyon’s The Adultery Handbook thinking that it might be something like Helen Fielding’s The Diary of Bridget Jones is going to be sorely disappointed. Instead of the flip, hip, funny guide ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Secrets in Water

By Barbara Sapergia

Toronto readers shouldn’t take umbrage that their city serves as Saskatoon writer Barbara Sapergia’s metaphor for spiritual paralysis: even back home on the Prairies, her central characters were unhappy. But it is in Toronto’s Cabbagetown ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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