The Path of Totality

In her introduction to The Path of Totality, a selection of new and previously published stories from her 35-year oeuvre, Audrey Thomas confesses that “Almost every story in this collection has something to do with ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Spadework

By Timothy Findley

Since his earliest novels, Timothy Findley has explored the many ways people betray their own better natures. Spadework continues this trend in showing how demons of anarchy and ambivalence conspire to destroy one man’s responsibility ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar

By Ashok Mathur

Calgary writer Ashok Mathur’s first novel, Once Upon an Elephant, was a perfectly pitched satire in which a gruesome and bizarre double murder entangles a diverse group of characters, including the elephant-headed deity Ganesh. Mathur ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Last Summer at Barebones

By Diane Baker Mason

There is something of the talk-show confessional in Diane Baker Mason’s first novel, Last Summer at Barebones – the embittered, vengeful narrator, Dee Graham, who has yet to overcome her emotional and physical struggles as ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Critical Injuries

By Joan Barfoot

Walking into a small-town ice cream parlour in the middle of a hold-up, 49-year-old Isla is shot and ultimately paralyzed from the waist down. The shooter, 17-year-old Roddy, takes off in a panic but is ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Emily Carr Country

By Courtney Milne

Celebrated West Coast painter Emily Carr was also an accomplished writer, winning a Governor General’s Award in 1941 for her first book, Klee Wyck. In Emily Carr Country ($60 cloth 0-7710-5889-6, 208 pp., McClelland & ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Pale Red Footprints

By K.I. Press

This polished debut collection of poetry is loosely based on the memoirs of author Karen Press’s French Canadian grandfather, Donat Sylvestre, which were translated from the French by Press’s mother, Mariette. Pale Red Footprints is ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

North of the Equator

By Cyril Dabydeen

Despite the 10 volumes of poetry, three novels, and six books of short fiction that Ottawa author Cyril Dabydeen has to his name, the prolific writer and former poet laureate of Ottawa still remains largely ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Swimming into Darkness

By Gail Helgason

It’s July 1962 and Thora Sigurdson isn’t enjoying being 13. She wants to be part of the in-crowd at West Beach, attaching herself to the popular Krywulak girls, but she doesn’t want to be disloyal ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Song for Nettie Johnson

By Gloria Sawai

With its drug store, churches, café, beerhall, and funeral parlour strung out along Main Street, Stone Creek, the setting for six of the nine stories collected in A Song for Nettie Johnson, could be any ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Quill and Quire

The Path of Totality

Spadework

The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar

Last Summer at Barebones

Critical Injuries

Emily Carr Country

Pale Red Footprints

North of the Equator

Swimming into Darkness

A Song for Nettie Johnson

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