Novels for the Masses…

  • Donna Palmateer Pennee
    Praying for Rain: Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage. ECW Press
  • Carol L. Beran
    Living Over the Abyss: Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man. ECW Press
  • Lorna Marie Irvine (Author)
    Collecting Clues: Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm. ECW Press
  • Arnold E. Davidson
    Writing Against the Silence: Joy Kogawa's Obasan. ECW Press
Reviewed by Patricia Merivale
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This review “Novels for the Masses…” originally appeared in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 115-118.

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