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Flesh and Gold

By Phyllis Gotlieb

Toronto author Phyllis Gotlieb has for decades been producing internationally successful novels, which, I think it’s safe to say, the majority of well-read Canadians have never heard of, let alone read. Lacking the mainstream crossover ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Delirium

By Douglas Cooper

Those looking forward to their reacquaintance with Izzy Darlow, the neurotic fairy-tale raconteur of Douglas Cooper’s enchanting 1992 novel Amnesia, are likely to be disappointed by the author’s muddled sophomore effort, the aptly titled Delirium.For ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Story So Far

By Sheldon Currie

Sheldon Currie came to national attention with the film version of his short story “The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum,” and with the publication of the novel, which he wrote to provide additional material for the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Rare Birds

By Edward Riche

Dave Purcell’s entrepreneurial response to being restructured out of fisheries is a brilliant little bistro in Push Cove on the outskirts of St. John’s. Though he hoped to attract the city’s emerald set, and prospering ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels