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I've been waiting seven years for this novel - since Szanto finished his Conquests of Mexico trilogy. We're far from Mexico now, but again the sense of place is paramount, this time the islands off the west coast of Canada. The title, despite a matter-of-fact explanation, hints at underworld mythology and astrological geography. The narrative and characters, also matter-of-fact enough on the face of it, wander in and out of the mysterious levels of our "ordinary " lives.
After I read this book once, I was not ready to put it down, so I read it again, right away
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When Arthur Motyer brought together these email letters from three friends, two faced death from cancer and he was the one left behind. Arthur has always been a remarkable teacher, and in this little book his teaching is truly a life-and-death matter - all the more poignant now that he too has been, like "Everyman," commanded to go on a journey. We are privileged to be invited to bear him company.
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Graham and her work were in danger of slipping into the obscure recesses of CanLit history. But recently Cormorant Books has published reprints of her first novel Swiss Sonata and of Earth and High Heaven, with insightful introductions. Now Barbara Meadowcroft's biography re-introduces us to the passionate, engaged and tragic person who wrote the books and articles. Meadowcroft, a research associate at the Simone de Beavoir Institute at Concordia University in Montreal, performed a similar re-introduction to a group of unjustly neglected Canadian painters in her previous book, Painting Friends; the Beaver Hall Women Painters. Her method of research, while thoroughly scholarly, allows… Read more
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