Fiction: Novels

Significant Things

Edward Cooper begins life in near-Dickensian circumstances, in a single room on Brunswick Avenue in Depression-era Toronto. Though he and his pretty, unmarried English mother have only each other and a meagre allowance from her ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wild Cat

By Jacques Poulin, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Jacques Poulin is one of Quebec’s best and most-loved writers, winner of the Governer General’s Award for Les Grandes marées (Spring Tides) and the Prix France-Amerique for Le Vieux chagrin (Mr. Blue). Thoughtful and wryly ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Wisdom of Water

By Karen Hood-Caddy

The setting in The Wisdom of Water isn’t Walkerton, Ontario, site of one of the country’s worst environmental disasters, but it’s eerily similar: tainted water from an outdated treatment plant, malfunctioning equipment, and an irresponsible ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Island Walkers

By John Bemrose

There was a novel published a few years ago called Under the Skin. Written by Michel Faber, it has perhaps the most original premise of any piece of fiction in the last five, six, maybe ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Blade of Grass

By Lewis DeSoto

A Blade of Grass, the first novel from Toronto writer and painter Lewis DeSoto, is an impressive, if flawed, debut, a compelling examination of race and place, the personal and the political, in South Africa. ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Continuation of Love by Other Means

By Claudia Casper

There’s a thesis to be written, if it hasn’t been already, on the theme of fascism in recent Canadian fiction. Several Timothy Findley novels, most notably Famous Last Words, dealt powerfully with the subject. Michael ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Garbo Laughs

By Elizabeth Hay

Garbo Laughs draws us right into old Ottawa South and onto the Gold family’s front porch. It is fitted out, like a ship, with every necessity of summer life – hammocks, workbench, outdoor faucet, library ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue Becomes You

By Bettina von Kampen

Blue Becomes You is another of the small-town novels that are nearly as numerous as the communities that inspire them. Sixty-three-year-old Charlotte Weiss has arrhythmia and must retire after more than 40 years as head ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Still Life with June

By Darren Greer

Cameron Dodds is a 31-year old writer whose work has appeared in crappy little magazines that pay in comp copies. He’s a former drug addict who is now working nights at a Salvation Army Drug ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Alms

By Cynthia MacDonald

Alms is set in the 1980s in Toronto. Its sad-sack protagonist, Martine Craythorn, describes her people as “the late-century rich – back-patters and horse-laughers.” In an age of ambition and acquisition, Martine is obsessed only ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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