Maelstrom

Science fiction blended with action adventure – the techno thriller – has been around since Ian Fleming first outfitted James Bond with an Inspector Gadget-sized arsenal of hi-tech toys. But the excitement and intrigue of ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Turning Samoan

By Dennis Chute

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that while a serious writer may spin an entire career’s worth of books out of one Big Idea, comic writers must forever be coming up with fresh jokes. He also wrote ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Behind the Face of Winter

By H. Nigel Thomas

The novel of immigration has emerged as an important genre in recent years, with such works as Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco’s Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers and Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here heading a list ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Heave

By Christy Ann Conlin

There have been many successful novels that never venture far beyond the confines of a single character’s mind. But if an author is going to set such narrow parameters, then there had better be something ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Journeymind

By Brad Thomas Batten

A car skids on black ice on Avenue Road in Toronto. As the unnamed narrator lies badly injured by the roadside, the souls of his fellow victims, lover Elle and his father, slip “like eels, ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midnight Cab

By James W. Nichol

The blurb on the back of Midnight Cab makes a brave – or possibly suicidal – claim that aspects of this mystery are “worthy of Thomas Harris.” The surprise is that the comparison is not ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Divine Economy of Salvation

By Priscilla Uppal

In the early 1970s an angelic teenage girl named Bella dies mysteriously at St. X. School for Girls. She had been an initiate to “the Sisterhood,” a small group of students who gathered in one ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Saints of Big Harbour

By Lynn Coady

The literary mavens of Canada are keeping a close eye on Lynn Coady because her first two works of fiction (Strange Heaven, a novel, and Play the Monster Blind, a story collection) showed such dazzling ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Crow Lake

By Mary Lawson

Crow Lake begins at a luminous moment for the Morrison family. Luke, the eldest son, has been accepted at teachers’ college, the first of the family to go on to higher education. Matt, two years ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mile End

By Lise Tremblay, Gail Scott, trans.

The unnamed narrator of Lise Tremblay’s Mile End plays the piano for a living, accompanying aspiring singers and ballet dancers. She could do much better if she tried, but she is confused about what she ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Maelstrom

Turning Samoan

★ Behind the Face of Winter

Heave

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The Divine Economy of Salvation

Saints of Big Harbour

★ Crow Lake

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