Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Losing It

By Alan Cumyn

Bob Sterling is the Edgar Allen Poe specialist at a Canadian university. He dumped his first wife for front-row student Julia, and now that marriage, too, is adrift because Bob lusts for yet another student, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mad Dog

By Kelly Watt

The plot of Mad Dog, Kelly Watt’s first novel, seems designed to be a quick pitch: it is 1964, and 14-year-old Sheryl-Anne is living with her uncle Fergus on his apple orchard, deep in the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

River Thieves

By Michael Crummey

The scene is Newfoundland’s desolate north shore about 200 years ago. European settlement is well under way and the Beothuk have entered into their twilight on this Earth. In an isolated outpost household, a domestic ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Life of Pi

By Yann Martel

It’s impossible to read Yann Martel’s audacious, exhilarating, frustrating second novel without wondering what the hell happened. The premise of Life of Pi vibrates with promise. A family living in a small corner of India ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Doctor’s House

By Cary Fagan

Toronto writer Cary Fagan has called his new book, The Doctor’s House, “a miniature novel.” At 76 pages it is certainly miniature in its physical dimensions, although Fagan manages more in the small confines of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels