Since its beginning in 1945, The Fiddlehead has sought to
Michael Taylor
The Ivory Swing, Janette Turner HospitalThe Tiger in the Tiger Pit, Janette Turner Hospital
Lives of Short Duration, David Adams Richards. Oberon Press, 1981
Packet (nee Patrick) Terri, the elusive, enigmatic centre of blighted intelligence and feeling in Lives of Short Duration, read's Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych"
Happenstance, Carol Shields. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 1980.
In her first novel, Small Ceremonies, Carol Shields managed to tap into the rich, wicked vein of significance that runs through the blandest life.
Gentle Sinners, W. D. Valgardson. Oberon Press, 1980.
Whoever wrote the extravagantly complimentary blurb on the back-cover of Gentle Sinners managed a particle of truth in otherwise predicatably outlandish blather.
Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood. McClelland and Stewart, 1979.
Like Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood writes novels with women as their edible protagonists.
Who do you Think You Are?, Alice Munro, Macmillan of Canada, 1978.
Who do you think you are is the most recent collection of short stories by Alice Munro, ten in all, eight of them published previously in a variety of magazines ranging from The New Yorker to Viva and Weekend, two of them newly written.
Old Soldiers Never Die
Matt, Cohen, Night Flights
Skevington's Daughter, John Mills. Oberon Press, 1978.
Playful, tricky, complicated, Skevington's Daughter demands alert reading and alert readers patient enough to enjoy for almost its own sake the sportive equitation of burnoused words, as Mills would say, some of which (for example, "borborigmus") I couldn't find in the dictionary.
The Wars, Timothy Findley, Clarke, Irwin, 1977.
We no longer believe that some subject are more appropriate for literary treatment than others:
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