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Toronto Singles Guide

Newcomers to Toronto pick up on three things very quickly: only tourists and newscasters enunciate the final syllable – the locals say something much closer to “Tronno”; the flashing green traffic light definitely does not ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Tightrope Passage: Along the Refugee Route to Canada

By Ivo Moravec

Tightrope Passage is the first book of Ivo Moravec’s second writing career. His first was as a songwriter and children’s writer in his native Czechoslovakia. In 1983, worn down by the restrictions on his artistic ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Where She Has Gone

By Nino Ricci

My symptoms: I’m a little out-of-step and melancholic, more than usually prone to pondering, distracted, trying to get my focus back on imminent objects while I also do my best to hold on to the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Northern Frights 4

By Don Hutchison,ed.

The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold. Having written those lines, Robert Service opened the cremation chamber door to a chilling sub-genre of horror fiction: terror in the Canadian ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Finding the Enemy

By Mary Soderstrom

These 14 linked short stories touch upon the lives of Stewart and Dorothy Rice, their four children, and June, at first a seemingly unrelated character, from the end of the Second World War until the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Vital Signs: New Women Writers in Canada

By Diane Schoemperlen,ed.

Short fiction – recently mourned as something no one was reading much any more – appears to be undergoing a renaissance among Canadian writers, and many of the newest and smartest practitioners of these compressed ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Pig Iron

By Paul Davies

Pig Iron, by Ontario writer and ECW designer Paul Davies, is the story of a car, a 31-foot crimson streamliner that may set a new wheel-driven, land-speed world record in 1968. During its design, construction, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tree Fever

By Karen Hood-Caddy

In her debut novel, Tree Fever, Ontario writer Karen Hood-Caddy dramatizes the activism and commitment to nature that defines the Canadian environmental movement. The novel is set in Muskoka, Ontario, where Hood-Caddy, a social worker who ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Landed

By Rita Donovan

Ottawa writer Rita Donovan’s previous novels, Dark Jewels and Daisy Circus, broke through the small press ranks to win media praise and regional book prizes. Her third, Landed, displays a mature narrative confidence, using an ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Some Things About Flying

By Joan Barfoot

Joan Barfoot’s novels – like her last book, Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch – deal with a breed of women better suited to independence than domesticity. In Some Things About Flying she continues her ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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