American Whiskey Bar

PrefaceI was playing with the idea of using Michael Turner’s own devices to write about his new novel American Whiskey Bar. The Vancouver poet, musician, and now novelist, uses a Preface (written by a character ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Salamander

By Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton’s first novel, Icefields, came via NeWest Press’s Nunatak Fiction. The imprint’s slim books – new writing by new writers from the West – lack the flash and budget of ones launched like smooth-skinned ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Spirits in the Wires

By Charles de Lint

Ottawa writer Charles de Lint writes mythic fiction, bringing magical elements into the world we know and taking our world into fantastic realms – the borderlands, the places in between, the otherworlds. In his Newford ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Magician’s Wife

By Brian Moore

You would never describe Brian Moore as a flashy writer, and this is a good thing. His style is reserved and observant, his themes large and universal, but exquisitely localized: this is someone who pulls ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Henderson’s Spear

By Ronald Wright

Ronald Wright was New Faced by Knopf Canada in 1997 with his first novel, A Scientific Romance, a dark and witty time-travelling indictment of everybody. Wright’s face was not exactly new: he was kissing 50 ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Body’s Place

By Elise Turcotte,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Montreal novelist Elise Turcotte tells a chilling summer story about teenagers in The Body’s Place. School is out and 15-year-old Hélène, her slightly younger sister Lisa, and their 5-year-old brother have to find things to ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Monkey Beach

By Eden Robinson

Haisla-Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson’s first book was a collection of four stories, Traplines. In 1996, it opened to New York raves and Canadian reserve (pun intended): pretty good for a beginner. Her subsequent New Face ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Atonement

By Gaétan Soucy,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Gaétan Soucy’s novel Atonement is as carefully put together and as disturbing as a painting by Belgian artist René Magritte. Although the surrealist painter meticulously represents a familiar world, Magritte’s universe, like Soucy’s, seems ordered ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Going Down Swinging

By Billie Livingston

Billie Livingston’s first novel sympathetically witnesses the precarious existence of a single mother and her seven-year-old daughter Grace in the early 1970s. Briefly a teacher, Eilleen Hoffmann has fallen into the service of alcohol, pills, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Wyoming

By Douglas Coupland

I’m one of those people who thought Douglas Coupland’s Generation X (1991) was interesting writing and not just sociologically hip Zeitgeist charting. Nearly a decade, and a half-dozen Coupland books later, Gen X (I reread ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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American Whiskey Bar

★ Salamander

Spirits in the Wires

The Magician’s Wife

Henderson’s Spear

The Body’s Place

Monkey Beach

The Atonement

Going Down Swinging

Miss Wyoming

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