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Fiction: Novels

Magic Time

By W.P. Kinsella

Magic Time is a novel that W.P. Kinsella at first abandoned, and then issued in its several parts as short stories, and has now reintegrated into a story of baseball, love, and strange dealings, featuring ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Hand Clapping

By Lise Leroux

Item: The Times of London, March 1998Reviewer Jane Shilling inspects two novels, Leaving Earth by the Toronto writer Helen Humphreys and One Hand Clapping by the Montreal-born Lise Leroux. They’re both first forays and they ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Long Run

By Leo Furey

You might expect a novel about a Catholic orphanage in St. John’s in 1960 to be a grim tale of religious bullying and physical and sexual abuse. The powerful first chapter in Brother McCann’s classroom, ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Holding

By Merilyn Simonds

In her first novel, Merilyn Simonds offers us fusty historical fiction with a fresh psychological twist and a poetic sensibility. The story alternates between the journey and travails of Margaret MacBayne, a Scottish emigrant who ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Gradual Ruin

By Robert Hilles

The irony of Robert Hilles’ second novel is that the one thing it lacks is poetry – ironic because Hilles is also a Governor General’s Award-winning poet. The writing here is spare, unadorned, at times ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels