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André Alexis: Days by Moonlight
André Alexis Days By Moonlight Coach House Books, 2019 Softcover, 218 pages
With four novels published within the last five years, multi-award winning Canadian author André Alexis shows no signs of slowing down in this, his latter middle age. On the contrary, with increasing international recognition and increasingly reverential treatment by critics and reviewers, he seems to be rapidly ascending…
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Taylor, Timothy: The Rule of Stephens
Taylor, Timothy: The Rule of Stephens
Taylor, Timothy The Rule of Stephens Doubleday Canada, 2018 Softcover, 228 pages
Anyone with even a toe in the modern world has felt it. Of this, I am certain. It’s an uncomfortable sensation, particularly acute for those of us who would like to believe in a rational world, and who, like me, require (or at least prefer) a foothold of logic from which to launch decision-making processes. Our current…
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Unwin, Peter: Searching For Petronius Totem
Unwin, Peter: Searching For Petronius Totem
Unwin, Peter Searching For Petronius Totem Freehand Books, 2017 Softcover, 247 pages
Let me get straight to the point. This is a brilliant book: a savagely satirical romp, a slaughterhouse for sacred cows (tender sensibilities beware) an eulogy for the Romantic hero, a fever dream of early 21st century anxiety, a midlife identity crisis, and a voyage of self-discovery. Simultaneously poignant…
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Kowalski, William: The Best Polish Restaurant in Buffalo
Kowalski, William: The Best Polish Restaurant in Buffalo
Kowalski, William The Best Polish Restaurant in Buffalo Orchard Street Press, 2017 Softcover, 193 pages
I first reviewed a novel by transplanted American (now Canadian) novelist, screenwriter, locavore and pickle-maker extraordinaire, William Kowalski, in 2013 — his wonderful The Hundred Hearts— and noted, at the time, that its dissection of the heart of the American dream was apropos,…
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Casper, Claudia: The Mercy Journals
Casper, Claudia: The Mercy Journals
Casper, Claudia The Mercy Journals Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 Softcover, 231 pages
Claudia Casper is a Vancouver writer, who, over the last twenty years or so, has been making a name for herself with a series of well-regarded novels beginning with The Reconstruction (1996) followed by The Continuation of Love By Other Means (2003) and culminating (thus far) with her 2016 meditation on…
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Barwin, Gary: Yiddish for Pirates
Barwin, Gary: Yiddish for Pirates
Barwin, Gary Yiddish for Pirates Random House Canada, 2016 337 pages
For someone who considers herself at least somewhat versed in the Canadian writing and arts scene, I am mystified as to how it could be that I had not previously known of Gary Barwin. A veritable polyglottal polymath, both a poet and a one-man band, an uber-menschian everyman, his curriculum vitae includes a PhD in music…
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Wiebe, Rudy Come Back Knopf Canada, 2014 HC 268 pages Western Canadian writer Rudy Wiebe's latest novel, Come Back is a searing, psychologically rich cri de coeur -- an elderly father's confused, e...
Wiebe, Rudy: Come Back
Wiebe, Rudy Come Back Knopf Canada, 2014 HC 268 pages
Western Canadian writer Rudy Wiebe’s latest novel, Come Backis a searing, psychologically rich cri de coeur — an elderly father’s confused, enraged, heartbroken appeal to the universe to find some meaning in his young son’s suicide, and finally, and belatedly, an attempt to address his own sense of inadequacy, its role in the 25-year old…
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You've Seen It Before: Predictive Imagery in Michael Crummey's Sweetland
Photo by: Kerry Riley, 2013
As mentioned in the main review, Michael Crummey’s Sweetlandis full of hints and suggestions of another reality beyond what we might consider the normal everyday — places which, as Moses, the protagonist notes, can’t be found on a map. It is those people whose interaction with average, everyday, civilized life is not precisely average who seem to experience this other…
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Crummey, Michael: Sweetland
Crummey, Michael Sweetland Doubleday Canada, 2014 HC, 318 pages
Michael Crummey, now firmly established as one of our pre-eminent Canadian writers, has, throughout his career, explored, with extraordinary depth of perception, the peculiar and particular emotional ache that arises from our human awareness of the passage of time, and the eternal sadness of lost things. It is not nostalgia,…
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Unwin, Peter: Life Without Death and Other Stories
Unwin, Peter: Life Without Death and Other Stories
Unwin, Peter Life Without Death and Other Stories Cormorant Books, 2013 Softcover, 180 pages
Peter Unwinis a writer for whom I had developed a deep and enduring admiration on the basis of one story alone, read a number of years ago. Attracted, initially, by the title, “Whistling Down the Lights,” I was, in very short order, charmed and intrigued by this deceptively simple and compassionate story…
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Richards, David Adams: Crimes Against My Brother
Richards, David Adams: Crimes Against My Brother
Richards, David Adams Crimes Against My Brother Doubleday Canada, 2014 Hardcover, 400 pages
In his latest novel, Crimes Against My Brother, Richards returns, as is his wont, to the Miramichi River, in his native New Brunswick, to once again cast a gimlet eye on the doings of men. Something of a companion piece to his 2000 Giller Prize-winning Mercy Among the Children, this tale focuses on a new…
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Toews, Miriam: All My Puny Sorrows
Toews, Miriam: All My Puny Sorrows
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Toews, Miriam All My Puny Sorrows Knopf Canada, 2014 Hardcover, 321 pages
Much has already been said about Miriam Toews’ latest novel, All My Puny Sorrows— that it is searingly honest, unbearably sad, funny, extraordinarily personal and perhaps, for some, uncomfortably autobiographical. All of this is true. It is all of these things but, also, something more. Toews…
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