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Fiction: Novels

Hoyden

By Pamela Westoby

The age-old conflict between art and commerce (otherwise known as “Is it really selling my soul if I get to eat regularly?”) is given a contemporary and Canadian voice in Hoyden, the debut novel from ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Everyone in Silico

By Jim Munroe

The increasing power of corporations and advertisers in contemporary society has gotten a lot of press in recent years and has become fodder for fiction, especially science fiction. In this, his third novel, Toronto writer ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Back Flip

By Anne Denoon

Readers may not have given much thought to Toronto in the 1960s, but Anne Denoon has extracted a novel from an even more arcane branch of the city’s historical tree: the milieu of art and ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kameleon Man

By Kim Barry Brunhuber

Kameleon Man, the debut novel from broadcast journalist and writer Kim Brunhuber, is an insightful and affecting treatment of the issues surrrounding race, gender, and sexuality in the 21st century. That it is set against ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Muriella Pent

By Russell Smith

Russell Smith is one of those rare figures on the Canadian cultural scene who has the capacity to really enrage people. From far-flung Globe and Mail readers, who see him as an arrogant Toronto art ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels