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Author: Dennis Bock
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Apr 2002
First Novels
by W.P Kinsella
Every once in a while a novel splashes to the surface of the slush pile like a big orange koi in a pool of minnows. Such a novel is Ten Good Seconds of Silence by Elizabeth Ruth (Dundurn, 414pgs, $19.99, ISBN: 0889243018), a sterling tale of a mother and daughter trying desperately to understand each other. As a teenager Lilith Boot had visions interpreted by her parents as hallucinations, and they committed her to a mental hospital. Read more...
| SepOct 2001
 | The Ash Garden
by Dennis Bock
Harper Flamingo Canada
281 pages $34 paper
ISBN: 0002255243
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Another View of The Ash Garden
by Keith Nickson
The editors at HarperCollins must have slipped into a state of rapture when they saw how our national newspapers reacted to the launch of Dennis Bock's first novel, The Ash Garden, on August 25łthe very cusp of the frenzied fall book season.
In The Globe and Mail, Bock was ordained as a hybrid of Updike, Cheever, and Mavis Gallant who had learned like an acolyte from Ondaatje and Urquhart while avoiding their "narrative excesses. Read more...
| Nov 2006
Cross-sectioning Norman Bethune
by Doug Brown
In The Communist's Daughter, Dennis Bock takes a controversial subjectłthe sweeping story of the medical innovator, social maverick, and anti-fascist Communist, Norman Bethunełand approaches it from an angle that renders that story narrower in scope, but difficult to tell. Bock is interested principally in exploring not Bethune's political significance, but his all-too-human life Read more...
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