Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood. McClelland and Stewart, 1979.
Like Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood writes novels with women as their edible protagonists.
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From the Fifteenth District: A Novella and Eight Short Stories, Mavis Gallant, Macmillan, 1979.
In the middle of the longest story in Mavis Gallant's latest collection of stories, From the Fifteenth District, there is a very funny line.
The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, Jack Hodgins. Macmillan, 1979.
"What a pack of crazies!"
Names of Thunder, Scott Lawrence. McClelland and Stewart, 1978
Dancing in the House of Cards, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco. Three Trees Press, 1977
The Tightrope Dancer, Irving Layton, McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
Hanging In, Raymond Souster, Oberon Press. 1979
Sunblue, Margaret Avison. lancelot, 1978.
"O for some Sun that shall unite Light & Warmth," wrote Coleridge in the Notebooks: as if in distant echo, Margaret Avison Gives us Sunblue, a book in which she continues to work startling combinations of metaphysics and vital sensory imagery.
Garden in the Wind, Gabrielle Roy, trans. Alan Brown. McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
CHildren of My Heart, Gabrielle Roy, trans. Alan Brown. McClelland and Stewart, 1979.
The Black Room, Ann Copeland. Oberon, 1979.
Considering Her Condition, Margaret Gibson. Gage Publishing, 1978.
The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone, Matt Cohen. McClelland and Stewart, 1979.
Lunar Attractions, Clark Blaise. Doubleday, 1979.
What the Cow Said, Robert Kroetsch, General Publishing, 1978.
Robert Kroetsch's poem, F.P. Grove: The Finding, in the Stonehammer poems is an appropriate introduction to the paradoxical substance of What the Crow Said in its characteristic concern with denial and subversion of the conventions of the writer's medium.
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