Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Tacones

By Todd Klinck

Winning the three-day novel writing contest is the party trick of the publishing scene. It’s light, it’s effervescent, and it gets you noticed. Unfortunately, to accomplish the latter, you have to actually publish the results ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Leaving Earth

By Helen Humphreys

The suspect beginning of Leaving Earth gives the impression the author is going to attempt a mytho-poetic version of Toronto in the 1930s – shades of Michael Ondaatje, except noticeably lacking his magical command of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Visible Worlds

By Marilyn Bowering

History needs time before it talks. In Visible Worlds, Winnipeg-born writer Marilyn Bowering has written of the experiences of an immigrant Canadian family during the Second World War. It’s a distinctly Prairie story. The coming ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Any Known Blood

By Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill’s outstanding second novel, Any Known Blood, is narrated by Langston Cane V – son of a white mother and black father, in his late 30s, recently divorced, and working in Toronto as speech ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Boardwalk

By Joseph Kertes

Joseph Kertes’ second novel for adults is an interesting hybrid: part road novel, part unabashed romance, mediated by its protagonists being typical Canadians counterpointed against a sleazy U.S. setting. Clyde and Eddie are brothers from ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels