Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • McAlmon's Chinese Opera by Stephen Scobie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wilson's Bowl by Phyllis Webb

North-Northwest (p. 102-104)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Measure by

Audrey and Rachel (p. 104-106)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Latakia by Audrey Thomas

Fantasy Lives (p. 106-109)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella
  • Cry Evil by Leon Rooke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Long Apprenticeship by Fred Cogswell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Creation and Recreation by Northrop Frye

Bessete Re-Viewed (p. 117-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Cycle by Gerard Bessette
  • La Garden-Party de Christophine by Gerard Bessette

Fantasia (p. 120-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Miss Charlie by Suzanne Paradis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sad Phoenician by Robert Kroetsch

Doing Time (p. 124-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jeune Délinquant by Robert Gurik
  • The Draft Dodger by Louis Caron
  • Inspector Therrien by Andre Major and Mark Czarnecki

Bubble-and-Squeak (p. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lizard in the Grass by John Mills

Una’s Story (p. 127-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Una by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Echoes, Reflections (p. 128-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Ceremony by Marie-Jose Theriault and David Lobdell
  • The Umbrella Pines by David Lobdell and Gilles Archambault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Hockey Sweater and other stories by Roch Carrier and Sheila Fischman
  • The Land of Look Behind by Paul Cameron Browne
  • The Glace Bay Miner's Museum by Sheldon Currie
  • Selected Stories of Mazo de la Roche by Douglas M. Daymond

Beauty of Bones (p. 134-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Héloïse by Anne Hébert

Canadian Languages (p. 136-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Languages of Canada by J. K. Chambers

Forgettable Plays (p. 139-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aléola by Gaetan Charlebois
  • After Abraham by Ron Chudley
  • Jitters by David French
  • The Lionel Touch by George Hulme
  • Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons by James W. Nichol

Required: Boldness (p. 141-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aurora 1980 by Morris Wolfe
  • 80 by Clark Blaise
  • First Impressions by John Metcalf

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Variations & Theme by Robert Finch

Words and Rewards (p. 146-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Greco's Last Book by Stanley Cooperman and Fred Candelaria
  • The Love Poems of Irving Layton by Irving Layton

To Revelations (p. 148-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Mushroom Jar by Nancy Senior
  • Piece Work by Mona Elaine Adilman
  • Bread and Chocolate by Mary Di Michelle
  • Marrying Into the Family by Bronwen Wallace

Riel in Review (p. 151-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poésies religieuses et politiques by
  • Histoire de la nation métisse dans l'Ouest canadien by Auguste-Henri de Tremaudan
  • De ta Soeur, Sara Riel by Mary Jordan
  • Le Roitelet by Claude Dorge
  • Louis Riel—Justice Must be Done by Association of Métis and Non-status Indians of Saskatchewan

Ferron’s Appeal (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Amélanchier by Jacques Ferron
  • Jacques Ferron, Cartographe de l'imaginaire by Pierre L'Herault

Conspiratorial (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Clandestines(s) ou La tradition du couchant by Jacques Renaud

La francophonie (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rencontres des peuples francophones 1979 by

Coureur de bois (p. 161-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Menfou Carcajou, Premiere partie: Ville-Marie by Suzanne Martel

Tour-de-farce (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Hawryliw Process by Robert Allen

Snearths & Others (p. 164-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • For the Birds by Paul Hiebert

More from Moss (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Canadian Novel, vol. II, Beginnings by John Moss

Tout seul (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Sagouine by Luis de Céspedes and Antonine Maillet
  • Monologues québécois, 1890-1980 by Doris-Michel Montpetit and Laurent Mailhot

En Acadie (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Raconte-Moi Massabielle by Jacques Savoie
  • Isabelle-sur-mer by Claude Lebouthillier

Psychocosmos (p. 171-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Voice Storm by Raymond Gariepy
  • Other Realities by Alexandre L. Amprimoz
  • Report on the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by Ken Norris
  • The Perfect Accident by Ken Norris
  • Autokinesis by Ken Norris
  • Romantic at Heart and other Faults by Endre Farkas

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Breaking and Entering by Len Gasparini
  • Marsh Burning by David Arnason