Shifting Powers: Three Novels

2020-10-19T11:15:32-04:00

Gordon Henderson’s Man in the Shadows (2014) HarperCollins, 2014 “As he helped her into the carriage, Agnes Macdonald whispered demurely, “I can lean on no other arm like yours.” Macdonald sat back contentedly and called out to the driver, “Buckley, take us to the office.” It would have

Shifting Powers: Three Novels2020-10-19T11:15:32-04:00

Lissa M. Cowan’s Milk Fever (2013)

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You might not guess from the cover of this debut novel that the epigraph would be drawn from Olympe de Gouges' "Declaration of the Rights of Women". Demeter Press, 2013 But one can be dressed in satin and lace and be a revolutionary, of course. As was Olympe

Lissa M. Cowan’s Milk Fever (2013)2014-06-24T10:55:28-04:00

Mary-Rose MacColl’s In Falling Snow (2012)

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It begins with a short but vividly drawn scene: two lovers alone in a room in Paris in 1917. Sensorily rich and broadly sketched: the reader is immediately engaged. Not only by the substance, but by a couple of unexpected phrases therein: questions arise. Those questions are soon set aside

Mary-Rose MacColl’s In Falling Snow (2012)2024-02-08T13:11:06-05:00

Two French Novels, In Translation: One Old, One New

2014-03-17T14:07:27-04:00

Nathacha Appanah's The Last Brother Translator Geoffrey Strachan (French) Graywolf Press, 2011 A Graywolf Press publication, a contender for The Tournament of Books, with a gorgeous and haunting cover image: all excellent reasons for picking up a copy of The Last Brother without reading a single word. And then you meet

Two French Novels, In Translation: One Old, One New2014-03-17T14:07:27-04:00

Roopa Farooki’s The Flying Man (2012)

2014-03-15T20:12:14-04:00

Headline - Review, 2012 The Flying Man opens in 2012, in France; our hero is preparing to die, looking back on his life. He's in Biarritz, but wouldn't it sound better to say that he was in Paris? And wouldn't it sound better to say that he is

Roopa Farooki’s The Flying Man (2012)2014-03-15T20:12:14-04:00
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