October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In Waiting for Gertrude, Vancouver writer, broadcaster, and notorious cat-fancier Bill Richardson envisions Paris’s famed Père-Lachaise Cemetery as inhabited by the souls of its notable occupants reincarnated into the bodies of feral cats. Chopin has ... Read More »
Lorenz Peter’s second graphic novel, Chaos Mission , is an extremely atypical coming-of-age autobiography originally serialized in an underground zine by the same name. Peter’s first graphic novel, The Last Remaining Ancient Mellish Bird, was ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Readers with an insatiable thirst for darkness and depravity might enjoy Vixen, Lynette D’anna’s novel that explores an obsessive relationship in several short vignettes. Those wishing to avoid another trip to the literary circle of ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
After earning a nasty reputation in his claustrophobic Nova Scotia home town, young Selwyn Davies runs off, like many a wandering, forever-unsatisfied protagonist before him, to earn a similar reputation around the world. The pace ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Thunder and Light is the sequel to Marie-Claire Blais’ astonishing These Festive Nights (1997), a novel that won international praise – and a Governor General’s Award – in its original French version, Soifs. Another book ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Given the certainties of death, misfortune, and betrayal, why do we persevere in trying to build lives of usefulness and contentment? Toronto’s Camilla Gibb looks for answers in her second novel, The Petty Details of ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
“America is a novel,” says one of the characters in Roch Carrier’s new novel The Lament of Charlie Longsong. But Robert Martin, Carrier’s stodgy protagonist, disagrees. He insists, instead, on setting the historical record straight. ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
On opening night at a strip club in the Troutstream Arms, a performer with the evocative name of Burnadette is nearly incinerated when her spectacular Joan of Arc routine goes awry. As the patrons gawk, ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Austin Clarke is not the first African-Canadian novelist, though he is one of the most esteemed – and most prolific. While Clarke follows early Ontario writers Martin Delany and William Stowers in chronology (they issued ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
It’s the summer of 1998 – that Clinton-Lewinsky summer – and at a small New England college another formerly respected, powerful man faces disgrace. His offence is a classroom remark, taken out of context and ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels