Visible Amazement

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

The Question

By Austin Clarke

Set in Toronto, this slightly surreal novel of sexual politics by veteran fiction writer Austin Clarke, winner of the 1999 W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize, tells the tale of a 40-something black man who meets ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Summer Burns

By Mary Jo Pollak

Hot summer nights. Parties. Small town Ontario. Drugs and alcohol. Waitressing. Hitchhiking. Best friends. Nicknames. This is Mary Jo Pollak’s first novel, Summer Burns. Living in the 1970s – where freedom mixes with drug dependency, ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sulha

By Malka Marom

To read Sulha’s 566 pages is to undertake a long, intense journey that pushes us to see the world through different eyes. Singer and documentary producer Malka Marom’s debut sets us down in Israel in ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lilac in Leather

By Sarah Murphy

Recently, American essayist Wendy Steiner characterized contemporary female fiction as being “rich in imagery and emotion, consumed by the desire to recover a lost or hidden past.” Sarah Murphy’s Lilac in Leather doesn’t stray far ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mouthing the Words

By Camilla Gibb

Thelma Barley, the narrator of Toronto writer Camilla Gibb’s first novel, Mouthing the Words, survives childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her father and the emotional bludgeoning of her vain, capricious mother to become ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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