Necessary Betrayals

By Guillaume Vigneault, Susan Ouriou, trans.

Like heroes in the best quest stories – Don Quixote, Bilbo Baggins, and Huck Finn, for example – Jack Dubois, the narrator of Guillaume Vigneault’s Necessary Betrayals, doesn’t know what he’s getting into when he ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Understanding

By Jane Barker Wright

The “understanding” of the title is presumably that which exists between Solly and Isobel Whitechapel, the couple at the centre of this novel: he’ll continue to womanize, she’ll continue having babies. This arrangement has been ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wound Ballistics

By Steven Manners

Steven Manners’ new book of short fiction has little relation to most of CanLit’s current isms, from postmodernism and historicism to transculturalism. The stories read like darker updates of vintage New Yorker fiction, offering opaque, ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Rhinestone Button

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Gail Anderson-Dargatz writes lovely novels about unlovely people: unlovely people who grow beautiful under her compassionate, masterful, sly authorial gaze. After two books with unforgettable heroines, Beth Weeks of The Cure for Death by Lightning ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Womanizer: A Man of His Time

By Rick Salutin

Columnist and playwright Rick Salutin’s latest novel is a delicately balanced cautionary tale that takes a serious look at society’s ever-changing attitudes to sexuality. It’s both lively and witty, but not as light as it ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Butterflies Dance in the Dark

By Beatrice MacNeil

In this debut novel from playwright Beatrice MacNeil, little Mari-Jen Delene is raised in a strictly Catholic village in Cape Breton in the early 1950s. There she is exposed to violence, loss, and superstitions, experiences ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Song Beneath the Ice

By Joe Fiorito

Columnist Joe Fiorito, who received international acclaim for his family memoir, The Closer We Are to Dying, will probably receive further acclaim for his first novel, The Song Beneath the Ice. The novel’s roots lie ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Young Dancer’s Apprenticeship: On Tour with the Moscow City Ballet

By Olympia Dowd

In A Young Dancer’s Apprenticeship, ballet dancer Olympia Dowd tells her story of joining the Moscow City Ballet at the age of 14. Resembling a glossy souvenir program for an international tour, this book records ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

Reel Adventures: The Savvy Teens’ Guide to Great Movies

By John Lekich

Choosing a movie from the TV guide or the shelves in the local video store can be a daunting task even if you’ve followed all the reviews. Vancouver critic John Lekich has not only followed ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

Rapid Ray: The Story of Ray Lewis

By John Cooper

Rapid Ray is John Cooper’s second telling of Ray Lewis’s life story. The first, Shadow Running, was aimed at adults, but both books share the same strengths and weaknesses.Hamilton-born Ray Lewis is the great- grandson ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

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