Behind the Avant Garde

  • Matthew Eden
    Conquest before Autumn. Longman Canada
  • Jim Willer
    Paramind. McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
  • Wayland Drew
    The Wabeno Feast. House of Anansi Press
  • Thomas York
    We, the Wilderness. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Canada
  • Kent Thompson
    The Tenants were Corrie and Tennie. Macmillan of Canada
Reviewed by Anthony Appenzell
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This review “Behind the Avant Garde” originally appeared in A Forest of Symbols. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 58 (Autumn 1973): 95-99.

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