Playing House

Positioning its protagonist somewhere between the worlds of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones and Allison Pearson’s Kate Reddy, Playing House falls effortlessly into the recent boom in narratives that explore the lives of thirtysomething females pursuing ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The In-between World of Vikram Lall

By M.G. Vassanji

There’s always a risk that any book set in Africa will have a soft-focus photograph on its cover and a title like The Weight of Water, or The Smell of Hibiscus, or Water Lightly Flecked ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Astral Projection

By Edward O’Connor

Poignancy alert! Astral Projection is a novel about an adolescent boy’s coming of age in the early 1960s. The fiction field is already overcrowded with finely crafted quasi-memoirs of confused boys in confused times, and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vaudeville!

By Gaétan Soucy, Sheila Fischman, trans.

The time is a 1929 that never was. The place is a magical New York where the Order of Demolishers is tearing down buildings and the demolished are looking for shelter wherever they can find ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Solemn Vows: A Marc Edwards Mystery

By Don Gutteridge

Early in 2003, Ensign Marc Edwards appeared in Don Gutteridge’s first historical mystery, Turncoat. A few real-time months later, Edwards is back in a new novel set several months later in historical time, already promoted ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kid Stuff

By Tom Walmsley

Occasionally you hear a critic claim that Canadian fiction is lacking grit and danger. Tom Walmsley’s new novel, his first in a decade, is the latest case for dispelling that idea. The book is called ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Haunted Hillbilly

By Derek McCormack

At 124 generously spaced pages, The Haunted Hillbilly – Derek McCormack’s first novel – demonstrates with style and sardonic wit that it’s not about the length, it’s all in how you use it. McCormack, the ... Read More »

October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Game to Play on the Tracks

By Lorna Jackson

Twice in this vivid, pyrotechnic novel, women walk into knitting shops that are heaped and hung like Aladdin’s cave with skeins – brightly dyed, flecked, handspun, synthetic. Proprietresses pull patterns from drawers, dispense yarns and ... Read More »

October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sitting Practice

By Caroline Adderson

The opening scene of Caroline Adderson’s Sitting Practice – with a bridegroom striding joyously through a field of assembling wedding guests as the wedding meats are laid on the fire – is pure 21st-century West ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Charlie Johnson in the Flames

By Michael Ignatieff

To be a foreign correspondent is to lead a double life. The work, which tends to take place in war-torn locales amidst violence and mayhem, demands an unnatural level of detachment and dispassion about human ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Playing House

The In-between World of Vikram Lall

Astral Projection

Vaudeville!

Solemn Vows: A Marc Edwards Mystery

Kid Stuff

★ The Haunted Hillbilly

A Game to Play on the Tracks

Sitting Practice

Charlie Johnson in the Flames

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