The Jimmy Trilogy, Jacques Poulin, trans. Sheila Fischman. Anansi, 1979.
Winner of the Governer General's Award for 1978 and of the Prix La Presse, Jaques Poulin is translated for the first time into English in the Jimmy Trilogy.
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Shoeless Joe jackson Comes to Iowa, W. P. Kinsella. Oberon Press, 1980.
These ten short stories mark a considerable chance in direction for W. P. Kinsella.
Daddy's Girl, Charlotte Vale Allen. McClelland and Stewart, 1980.
Promises, Charlotte Vale Allen. Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1980.
A(N)NOT(AT)ING NOTHING
A Book of Numbers, Paul Dutton. The Porcupine's Quill, 1979.
To a Sister Loneliness, Michael Brian Oliver. Fiddlehead Books, 1979.
The Beauty of it, Ted Colson. Fiddlehead Books, 1980.
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.
The Cultivated Garden
Ralph Gustafson, Wendy Kietner. Twayne World Authors, G.K. Hall, 1979.
There's a trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do, Michael Ondaatje. McClelland and Stewart, 1979.
Only Ondaatje, people say, shaking their heads in the knowing admiration, only Michael could have found the cover illustration.
General Ludd, John Metcalf. ECW Press, 1980.
IN a recent article for this journal I wrote that in these days of galloping inflation, political instability, renewed threats of being nuked until our cold ashes glow in the dark, and massive and growing unemployment it seems that individual feelings of helplessness and insubstantiality are growing again to those proportions they reached in the late fifties.
The Mole Men, Negovan Rajic, translated by David Lobdell Oberon, 1980.
Rajic's first novel begins lyrically, continues on a note increasing menace that degenerates into tedium, and ends ambiguously.
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