Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Get on Top

By David Homel

David Homel has delivered unto us a novel-length parable of sex, violence, sin, and a dusty old Jewish prophet-peddler’s wish to reveal the Messiah. The Messiah in this novel is Sabbitha Hunter, an 18-year-old blond ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Old Flames

By Kim Moritsugu

A one-time aspiring Broadway hoofer-turned-banking-flunky, Beth Robinson has quit her job to stay home and raise her two young daughters while her husband works in downtown Toronto. She cleans the basement, rakes the leaves, makes ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Getting Over Edgar

By Joan Barfoot

Joan Barfoot is a dependable chronicler of the malaise of women in our time. In her eighth novel the woman in question is a childless middle-aged widow in comfortable circumstances. Her belated journey of self-discovery ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Felix Roth

By Cary Fagan

Toronto author Cary Fagan has steadily developed a reputation as a writer of articulate and entertaining novels and short stories. Felix Roth, his eighth work of fiction, confirms Fagan as a writer of measurable talent. ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels