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Author: Elisabeth Harvor
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Apr 1988
On The Road
by Joel Yanofsky
WHEN ELISABETH HARVOR`S first collection of short stories, Women and Children, was published in 1973, the praise from reviewers was extravagant. Joyce Carol Oates called it I I one of the most accomplished first books of our time." Alice Munro described the writing as "some of the finest ever about marriage, kids, sex ... fife."
Ten years later, though, Women and Children was on its way to being out of print and its author seemed destined to become a CanLit statistic -- another one-hit wonder Read more...
| Aug 2002
Sexually Charged but
by Kathryn Kuitenbrower
Elisabeth Harvor may be Canada's least known literary celebrity. Published in Saturday Night and The New Yorker, her work has received critical acclaim on both sides of the border. Excessive Joy Injures The Heart is a national bestseller; Let Me Be The One was a finalist for the 1996 Governor General Award. Harvor's work has garnered numerous awards and critical accolades. Read more...
| Dec 2004
A Review of: : All Times Have Been Modern
by Sarah Selecky
Moving breathlessly through more than thirty years of the Kay
Olenski's life in relentless present tense, All Times Have Been Modern
reveals the intimate details of Kay's life as though we are right
there with her. At 13, Kay is hooked on reading the racy scenes she
can find in the books in the family library-scenes that turn her "into
a ticking little time-bomb reading a booksexually ticking" The books
seduce her first, but when this "sexual ticking" mixes with flirtation
with a boy who is staying with her family that summer, Kay creates a
blueprint for arousal that stays with her through adulthood. Years
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