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Fiction: Novels

The Fall of Gravity

By Leon Rooke

Don’t suspend disbelief. Don’t arrest it, curtail it, or unfrock it. Disbelief is in the fine print scratched at the bottom of Leon Rooke’s literary contract. What the meta-narrator of The Fall of Gravity calls ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Robbiestime

By Don Dickinson

Robbiestime has some of the same characters who appeared in Don Dickinson’s first book, the short-story collection Fighting the Upstream. It also has some of that book’s old-fashioned Canadian qualities, such as a preoccupation with ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Forest Burning

By Carole Giangrande

Carole Giangrande’s rich and ambitious new novel, A Forest Burning, is a story of generations of loss, soul baring, and secrets. The central story, which unfolds carefully, if a little pedantically, is much more compelling ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flat

By Mark Macdonald

The apartment as metaphor looms large in Mark Macdonald’s debut novel Flat. Metaphors for human isolation and the soul-crushing regularity of modern architecture, bird’s nests for disconnected voyeurs – apartment buildings dwarf the novel’s unnamed ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels