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Author: Mary Lawson
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May 2002
 | Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson
Knopf Canada
291 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0676974791
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Pond Life as a Microcosm
by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Crow Lake is a simple, feel-good novel set some five hours north of Toronto by a fictitious lake, amid the blackflies, the impoverished, the abusers and the Bible thumpers. Kate Morrison is our narrator and like her father not much of a storyteller; she meanders and repeats, she tells instead of shows, she is blind in obvious ways and uncannily astute in obscure ways Read more...
| JunJul 2002
 | The Divine Economy of Salvation
by Priscila Uppal
Doubleday
405 pages $32.95 cloth
ISBN: 0385658044
|  | Heave
by Christy Ann Conlin
Doubleday Canada
322 pages $29.95 paper
ISBN: 0385658079
|  | Spelling Mississippi
by Marnie Woodrow
Knopf Canada
386 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0676974317
| |  | Rush Home Road
by Lori Lansens
Knopf Canada
547 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0676974503
| | Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson
Knopf Canada
291 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0676974791
|  | The Heart Does Not Bend
by Makeda Silvera
Random House Canada
264 pages $32.95 cloth
ISBN: 0679311343
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First Novels
by W.P Kinsella
The first book I read for the 2002 season, Crow Lake, by Mary Lawson, (Knopf Canada, 294pages, ISBN: 0676974791), is a spellbinding story and likely to be collecting accolades at the end of the year. The bitter land and climate of Northern Ontario are like characters in this story of four orphaned children struggling to stay together as a family. Read more...
| Apr 2003
 | Heave
by Christy Ann Conlin
Doubleday Canada
322 pages $29.95 paper
ISBN: 0385658079
|  | Spelling Mississippi
by Marnie Woodrow
Knopf Canada
386 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0676974317
|  | Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson
Knopf Canada
291 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0676974791
| |  | Stay
by Aislinn Hunter
Polestar
269 pages $21.95 paper
ISBN: 1551925680
|  | The Beautiful Dead End
by Clint Hutzulak
Anvil Press
202 pages $14.95
ISBN: 1895636396
|  | The Wrong Madonna
by Britt Holstrom
Cormorant Books
399 pages $22.95 paper
ISBN: 1896951368
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2002łAnother Batch of Winning Fiction. The Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Award Shortlist
by W.P. Kinsella
Three of the finalists were reviewed in my first 2002 first novels column. I had hoped this would be a spectacular year, but unfortunately the quality didn't quite hold up. Looking the year over, the overall quality of the 2002 novels differed little from that of 2001. The best books were world class, the worst left me wondering why I subject myself to reading 50/60 first novels a year.
Last year, 2001, was the year of the boarding school novel, most of them pretty awful Read more...
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