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The Colours of Carol Molev

By Beth Goobie

Never mind “La Vie en Rose”: in Beth Goobie’s latest novel for young adults, the protagonist sees the world in one overwhelming hue after another. When 16-year-old Carol Molev begins to tune out of reality ... Read More »

February 19, 2004

She

By Claire Harris

Who is “She”? The enigmatic title of Claire Harris’s seventh book of poetry refers to a Trinidadian immigrant living in Calgary named Penelope-Marie Lancet. We learn of her tragic life in a series of erratic ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Another Gravity

By Don McKay

Another Gravity, B.C. poet Don McKay’s ninth book, weaves together three dozen poems by a writer who has surely thought a great deal about Shakespeare’s famous lines concerning lunatics, lovers, and poets who give “a ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Only Outcast

By Julie Johnston

This assured YA novel by award-winning author Julie Johnston (Hero of Lesser Causes, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me) is loosely based on a real diary recorded by 16-year-old Fred Dickinson at his family cottage on ... Read More »

February 19, 2004