Barbara Godard

Any doubt as to whether Thomas is one of our major writers should be dispelled in this new collection of short stories.

Writing about this book is difficult because it evokes such mixed responses from me.

To read Soucy's novel is to be carried back in time.

Thomas has never achieved a wide popular audience nor is she likely to with her new novel which, even more than her earlier writing, is the most dangerous of things--private.

In the seventies, the direction of Quebec writing has veered sharply towards the interrogation of language, the deconstructing of literary forms, and the writing of the emotion of the body in the text.