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Muriella Pent
Russell Smith
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April 20 2004
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There is something about Russell Smith's writing that enrages people. He reliably produces shimmering fiction--and one of the ...
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The Line Of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
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Bloomsbury US
Oct 5 2004
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Interview with Alan Hollinghurst Alan Hollinghurst's extraordinarily rich novel The Line of Beauty. has garnered a new level of acclaim for the author after winning the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Hollinghurst ...
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Ordinary Wolves
Seth Kantner
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Milkweed Editions
April 13 2004
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In the small but growing genre of ecological fiction, the great challenge is to balance political and environmental agendas with engrossing storytelling. This riveting first novel sets a new standard, offering a profound and beautiful account of a boy's at...
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Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
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Vintage Canada
Aug 17 2004
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Galveston
Paul Quarrington
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Random House Canada
May 11 2004
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Paul Quarrington has done it again. One of Canada's great comic writers, Quarrington has throughout his career proven himself expert at mixing the absurdities and ironies of life with flawed but likeable characters, and his ninth novel is no exception. ...
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The Complete Peanuts 1950-1954 Boxed Set
Charles M Schulz
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Fantagraphics Books
Oct 20 2004
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Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder and the rest of the gang have become North American icons. These favourite and familiar characters are now presented in one of the most ambitious publishing projects in the history of the comic strip: the compl...
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Runaway
Alice Munro
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McClelland & Stewart
Sep 21 2004
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Alice Munro has been accused of telling the same story over and over, and to a certain extent the characterization is true. Her subject matter is inevitably the vagaries of love between middle-aged people in some rural Canadian setting, trapped there by th...
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The Plot Against America: A Novel
Philip Roth
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Houghton Mifflin
Sep 7 2004
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The centre of the Earth, following World War Two, took up residence in a rent-controlled Manhattan apartment and has not deigned to budge since. Further, the American novel has become ...
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The Last Light of the Sun
Guy Gavriel Kay
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Viking Canada (AHC)
Mar 12 2004
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From his very first books, the trilogy known as the Fionavar Tapestry, Guy Gavriel Kay was recognized as one of the world's finest and most innovative writers working with the fantasy tradition. In later works he has taken on, with striking success, an alt...
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The Best Thing For You
Annabel Lyon
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McClelland & Stewart
Mar 16 2004
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Annabel Lyon's first book, Oxygen, received a great deal of attention for its flashy, dark, urbane stories. The Best Thing for You, a considerably heftier volume that collects three recent novellas, makes good on the promise of her debut. It shows Lyon expanding her range and pushing her sense ...
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Natasha and Other Stories
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David Bezmozgis became an overnight star when he published stories in the holy trinity of American magazines for fiction lovers: the ...
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13
Chris Ware
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McSweeney's
May 10 2004
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Guest-editing Dave Eggers's literary journal, Jimmy Corrigan cartoonist Ware has assembled a beautifully designed anthology of contemporary art comics, with a few vintage treats thrown in, including an excerpt from "Obadiah Oldbuck"—an 1842 publication that's arguably the first American comic book—and a series of very rough sketches by Charles ...
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System Of The World Baroque Cycle #3
Neal Stephenson
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William Morrow
Sep 21 2004
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The colossal and impressive third volume (after Quicksilver and The Confusion) of Stephenson's magisterial exploration of the origins of the modern world in the scientific revolution of the baroque era begins in 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, hoping to mediate the feud between Sir Isaac Newton and ...
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Camber
Don McKay
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McClelland & Stewart
Mar 16 2004
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This selection of poems from Don McKay's previous books (including two Governor General's Award winners) highlights the poet's consistent themes: birds, flight, gravity, the moon, music, the natural world, everyday life. Like any good poet, McKay comes at ...
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Snow
Orhan Pamuk
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Knopf
Aug 17 2004
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A Turkish poet who spent 12 years as a political exile in Germany witnesses firsthand the clash between radical Islam and Western ideals in this enigmatically beautiful novel. Ka's reasons for visiting the small Turkish town of Kars are twofold: curiosity ...
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The Master
Colm Toibin
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McClelland & Stewart
May 11 2004
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Joining the likes of Conor Cruise O’Brien, Seamus Heaney and John Banville, Colm Tóibín has emerged over the past decade as one of Ireland’s leading literary figures. Prolific cultural journalist, editor, essayist, and author of a number of highly praised non-fiction books, he has also written five superbly ...
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Oct 28 2004
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Fans of Robinson's acclaimed debut Housekeeping (1981) will find that the long wait has been worth it. From the first page of her second novel, the voice of Rev. John Ames mesmerizes with his account of his life—and that of his father and grandfather. Ames is 77 years old ...
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The Big Why
Michael Winter
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House of Anansi Press
Aug 4 2004
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The stories collected in One Last Good Look and the journal-novel This All Happened have given Michael Winter an enviable cachet as modern Newfoundland's charming genius loci. In The Big Why, his first historical novel, he sticks to his strengths--his knowledge and love for Newfoundland, his economical and shockingly ...
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Venous Hum
Suzette Mayr
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Arsenal Pulp Press
Oct 1 2004
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An exciting literary journey... a powerful anc compelling debut....
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The Half Brother: A Novel
Lars Saabye Christensen
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Arcade Publishing
May 17 2004
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Epic yet startlingly contemporary, this massive novel charts 50 years in the life of an unconventional Oslo family, lighted by gleams of the frozen north and the glow of movie screens. Narrator Barnum, an award-winning screenwriter, retraces his family's h...
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Making Light of Tragedy
Jessica Grant
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Porcupine's Quill
Sep 1 2004
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In her debut collection of stories, Jessica Grant displays a real gift for making light of tragedy. If that doesn't sound like much of a compliment, another way to phrase it might be making lightness from tragedy. A native of St. John's, Newfoundland, now ...
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Mackerel Sky
Natalee Caple
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Thomas Allen Publishers
Feb 21 2004
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It's a rare novel that combines a poet's love of language with a thriller writer's plot finesse, but Natalee Caple's ...
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter: A Novel
Jeff Lindsay
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Doubleday
Jul 20 2004
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It's been years since there's been a thriller debut as original as this one by Lindsay, who takes a tired subgenre-the serial-killer novel-and makes it as fresh as dawn. Lindsay's premise alone is worthy: narrator Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter specialist ...
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The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Minister Faust
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Del Rey
Aug 3 2004
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What do Edmonton, D&D, cannibalism, Star Wars, comic books, ancient African mythology, black culture, drugs, organic food, magic, and television shows have in common? They all play important roles in The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, a zany, stylish, and fun novel that blasts the boredom and ...
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An English Gentleman
Sky Gilbert
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Cormorant Books
Sep 27 2003
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Was the author of Peter Pan a pedophile? There's been a great deal of speculation on the subject in academic circles, much of it inspired by J.M. Barrie's unusually close relationship to his adopted son Michael Llewelyn Davies, who died of an apparent suicide in 1921. It's also a ...
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