The Lady of the Travelling Salesman, leo Simpson. University of Ottawa Press, 1976.
The satirical stories of Leo Simpson's collection The Lady and the Travelling Salesman are the major attraction of the book, and they are also its limitation.
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So Free We Seem, Jamie Brown. Clark, Irwin, 1976.
In So Free We Seem Jamie Brown presents the second novel of a projected trilogy that began with Stepping Stones.
The Seventh Hexagram, Ian McLachlan. Macmillian, 1976.
This novel ends wityh a gnomic quotation from Mao Tse-tung, so let us start with a less gnomic utterance.
Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje. Anansi, 1976.
Why do I love most
World of Wonders, Robertson Davies. Macmillian of Canada, 1975.
Written in 1975, World of Wonders completes Robertson Davies' triology begun by Fifth Business
Revoir Ethel, Claude Jasmin. Eds. Alain Stanke, Montreal, 1976.
The Madman the Kits and the island, Felix Leclerc, trans. Philip Statford. Oberon, 1976.
"The Hidden Dreamer's Cry": Natural Forces As Point-Of-View
One Who Became lost, Marilyn Bowering. Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1976.
Heaven's Door, gregory grace. Fiddlehead Poetry books, 1976
Name, Seymour Mayne. Mosaic Press, 1976.
The Swing in the Garden, Hugh Hood. Oberon Press.
The Drubbing of Nesterenko and First loves, hanford Woods. Alithea.
Farthing's Fortunes, Richard B. Wright. Macmillan of Canada, 1976.
Richard B. Wright's Farthing's Fortunes may not be a grand novel in absolute terms (if such exists), but it's a "great read"--a rollicking, exuberant picaresque novel chock-full of Canadian cultural experience, and, as such, is a certain candidate for the next Governer-General's Award.
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