Connections: A Good Man

2014-07-11T16:16:01-04:00

Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man McClelland & Stewart, 2011 Sebastian Barry has said that a good historical novel is about "retrieving the present moment".* That is true of Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man. From the beautiful but austere cover art of the frontier, to the detailed descriptions of fort and

Connections: A Good Man2014-07-11T16:16:01-04:00

Across: The Free World

2021-06-04T15:01:55-04:00

David Bezmozgis' The Free World HarperCollins, 2011 The Krasnansky family is making their way out of Soviet Russia, travelling to Rome. Samuil, the patriarch, is annoyed by the tour guide's suggestion that the history of Western civilization could be plotted along the road that the bus is travelling. "Their history:

Across: The Free World2021-06-04T15:01:55-04:00

To Tell the Truth: From Midnight to Dawn

2021-02-01T11:25:18-05:00

Jacqueline L. Tobin's From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (with Hettie Jones) Doubleday, 2007 Midnight was the code-name for Detroit; it was the gateway to Canada, the last overtly dangerous stop on the Underground Railroad, which many slaves travelled out of America in pursuit of

To Tell the Truth: From Midnight to Dawn2021-02-01T11:25:18-05:00

Between: The Meagre Tarmac

2014-03-15T16:10:36-04:00

Clark Blaise's The Meagre Tarmac Biblioasis, 2011 The quote from Margaret Atwood on the back of this collection identifies Clark Blaise as a "master storyteller and border-crosser". This might refer to the national borders that the characters cross in the eleven stories in this collection. It might also refer to

Between: The Meagre Tarmac2014-03-15T16:10:36-04:00
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