“Silence” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T16:56:51-04:00

In the story, it is Joan who prolongs the name "with a certain tone of celebration". Penelope. But it's easy to imagine that it is actually Alice Munro who is savouring every syllable as she draws it out in ink. Pen-ell-oh-pee. You can imagine her there, à la Winslet and DiCaprio, at the

“Silence” Alice Munro2014-07-11T16:56:51-04:00

Nancy Lee’s The Age (2014)

2017-07-24T14:33:54-04:00

Do you hear it when you look at the cover of Nancy Lee’s debut novel? Cue the music: “This is the dawning of….” The Age. It is an unusual title which manages to feel both like a fragment and an expansive concept. If readers do think of the song from

Nancy Lee’s The Age (2014)2017-07-24T14:33:54-04:00

Steffie, Angel, Baby and More

2014-03-03T17:58:46-05:00

When I was in high school, I read Fran Arrick's Steffie Can't Come Out to Play (1978) more than once. I even wrote a book report on it in the ninth grade, when the assigned reading included J. Meade Falkner's Moonfleet and Robert Westall's The Machine Gunners. (Wanted: female characters.)

Steffie, Angel, Baby and More2014-03-03T17:58:46-05:00

“The Children Stay” Alice Munro

2017-07-24T14:28:00-04:00

As with the earlier stories in this collection, readers are cast back in time: by thirty years in "The Children Stay". Readers find themselves on the east coast of the Island, Vancouver Island, but the exact location of the cottage is reminiscent of the way in which the Maitland River

“The Children Stay” Alice Munro2017-07-24T14:28:00-04:00

“Cortes Island” Alice Munro

2017-07-24T14:28:11-04:00

One wonders if the "little bride" would have sat with the Monicas on the beach in "Jakarta". Would she, in the eyes of Kath and Sonje, inhabit the model of femininity that the Monicas represent? Or would they encourage her to join them behind the logs? McClelland & Stewart,

“Cortes Island” Alice Munro2017-07-24T14:28:11-04:00
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