Water Wings by Kristen den Hartog Knopf Canada 225 pages $29.95 paper ISBN: 0676972934
What We All Want by Michelle Berry Random House Canada 239 pages $32.95 paper ISBN: 0679310770
As Getting to Normal by Sandra Campbell Stoddart 244 pages $29.95 paper ISBN: 0773732799
Open Arms by Marina Endicott Douglas & McIntyre 248 pages $22.95 paper ISBN: 1550548409
Lenny Bruce is Dead by Jonathan Goldstein Coach House Books 155 pages $17.95 paper ISBN: 1552450694
First Novels by W.P Kinsella
It appears this may be the year of the cathartic first novel. In the early pages of the six novels reviewed here we have two mothers and a grandfather dead, a reminiscence of a father's death, an elderly man suffering a massive stroke, and a child taken deathly ill.
On the heels of two highly praised story collections (Object of Your Love, and The Counsel of the Moon) Dorothy Speak gives us The Wife Tree, (Random House Canada, 312 pages, $32. Read more...
