Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Sleeping Weather

By Cary Fagan

Leon Stone, Cary Fagan’s leading man in Sleeping Weather, is a Toronto character who’s spent some time in Kingston penetentiary and who urgently wants an explanation for his childhood. Fagan gives him lots of emotional ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Summer Point

By Linda McNutt

Summer Point is the first novel by New Brunswick poet and playwright Linda McNutt. Its cover, part of a Cormorant Books redesign by Toronto designer Bill Douglas, is dark and elegant. This is a carefully constructed ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Scribes & Scoundrels

By George Galt

Journalist George Galt’s debut novel satirizes the self-important world of Toronto magazines, but most readers – even those who can’t relate to the setting, the editorial offices of a fictional monthly called Berger’s – won’t ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

City of Forgetting

By Robert Majzels

“Je me souviens” proclaims the provincial licence plate, but the Montreal of Robert Majzels’ new novel seems haunted: half-remembered myths, dreams, and histories surface and collide in its melting springtime steets. And even as Majzel’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bread, Wine & Angels

By Anna P. Zurzolo

Where more grandiose novelists might place epigraphs from Tolstoy or Flaubert at the beginning of each chapter, Anna Paletta Zurzolo has inserted recipes. And to deflate fiction’s pomposities even more, her instructions are written just ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lion of Venice

By Mark Frutkin

Past-Governor-General’s-Award nominee Mark Frutkin’s The Lion of Venice is a hybrid of a fictionalized biography of Marco Polo and his travels to the East, and poetic introspective writing that evokes the atmosphere of 13th-century Venice, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels