Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

This Body

By Tessa McWatt

"How does it feel to be an echo?” is the question that both drives and thwarts Victoria Blayne, the protagonist of Tessa McWatt’s third novel. This Body is a story of self-reckoning, an exploration of ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Duet

By David Helwig

Duet seems an oddly refined title for this sourly comic novella by prolific poet and novelist David Helwig. Ending Up would have been perfect for this examination of aging and death, had that title not ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wally

By Greg Kramer

Wally Greene, closing in on his fifties, spends his days in his workshop building props for Vancouver’s Phoenix Theatre. It’s 1987, Vancouver is deep in post-Expo torpor, and Wally’s life is suspended between two women ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Look for Me

By Edeet Ravel

This is the sophomore installment in Edeet Ravel’s Tel Aviv trilogy, themed around life in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her brilliant first novel in the series, Ten Thousand Lovers, published in 2003, met with terrific international ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels