Book Reviews

Images of India (p. 101-103)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tales From Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry

Wily Western (p. 103-106)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Caprice by George Bowering

Global Village (p. 106-109)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cambodia: A book for people who find television too slow by Brian Fawcett

Récits (p. 109-109)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Passantes by Tiziana Beccarelli-Saad

Variations (p. 110-111)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Woman Upstairs by Mary Walters Riskin
  • Beneath the Western Slopes by Patrick Roscoe

Going Home (p. 111-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Homecoming by Veronica Ross
  • The Port Dalhousie Stories by Dennis Tourbin

Fantasies (p. 113-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Double Vie Léonce et Léonil by France Ducasse
  • Benito by François Gravel

Bombardment (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beaux Draps by Jean-Marie Poupart

Writ in Snow (p. 116-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flight of the Falcom: Scott's Journey to the South Pole, 1910-1912 by J. A. Wainwright

Critical Buzz (p. 118-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony by D. J. Enright
  • Fictional Worlds by Thomas Pavel
  • Superstructuralism by Richard Harland

Roses are Read (p. 119-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Excerpts from the Real World by Robert Kroetsch

Feminine Plural (p. 123-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Écoute, Sultane by Anne-Marie Alonzo
  • Fiction-nuit by Claudine Bertrand
  • L'Audace des mains by Louise Cotnoir
  • L'Infante immémoriale by Madeleine Gagnon
  • La fiction du réel: poèmes 1953-1975 by Fernande Saint-Martin

Omnibus-Two (p. 128-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Illusions by Charlotte Vale Allen
  • Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Criticism by Robert C. Allen
  • Watching Dallas by Ien Ang and Della Couling
  • Acceptation Globale by Francois Benoit and Phillipe Chaveau
  • La corrida de l'amour: le roman Harlequin by Julia Bettinotti
  • Gestures by H. S. Bhabra
  • Art and Reality: A Casebook of Concern by Robin Blaser and Robert Dunham
  • Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience by Iain Chambers
  • A Doctor's Calling by Morris Gibson
  • A Death for a Darling by E. X. Giroux

Klein’s Essays (p. 131-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary Essays and Reviews by A. M. Klein, Usher Caplan and M. W. Steinberg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fleury Mesplet (1734-1794: Imprimeur, éditeur, libraire, journaliste) by Jean-Paul de Lagrave
  • Henri d'Hellencourt: Un journaliste français au Manitoba (1898-1905) by Bernard Pénisson

Strong Shapes (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I Shout Love and Other Poems by Milton Acorn and James Deahl
  • The Northern Red Oak: Poems for and about Milton Acorn by James Deahl
  • Poems New and Selected by Henry Beissel

Enfants de la terre (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Des Cailloux blancs pour les forêts obscures by Jovette Marchessault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Gourou by Normande Elie
  • Le mercanaire de LG2 by Roger Delisle

Butterfly Winter (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Red Wolf, Red Wolf by W. P. Kinsella

States of Nature (p. 143-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mariaagélas: Maria, daughter of Gélas by Antonine Maillet and Ben-Z. Shek
  • The Legacy [Quand j'aurai payé ton visage] by Claire Martin and David Lobdell
  • Hannah by Robina Salter
  • Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness by Marilyn Yalom

Broadsheets (p. 146-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Borrowed Beauty by Maxine Tynes
  • Letter to a Distant Father by Kenneth Radu
  • Microphones by Alexander Kizuk

Acadia in the Sky (p. 147-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Garrochés en paradis by Antonine Maillet
  • Le Huitième Jour by Antonine Maillet

Moveable Feast (p. 149-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Toute la terre à décorer by André Vachon

Maître Draveur (p. 153-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Histoire de Menaud. Revue d'historie du Québec et du Canada français, 13 (hiver-printemps 1987) by René Dionne

Debts Repaid (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Foundations: Alan Plaunt and the Early Days of CBC Radio by Michael Nolan

Kanada-Studien (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Grundlagen zur Literatur in englischer Sprache: Kanada by Konrad Gross and Walter Pache

Reference (p. 160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • New World Dictionary of Quotable Definitions by Eugene E. Brussell
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Australian History by Jan Bassett
  • Eyewitness to History by John Carey
  • The Book of Literary Facts: A Collection of Annotated Lists, Statistics, and Anecdotes Concerning Books by Nicholas Parsons

Reference (p. 160-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionary of Literary Bibliography - Canadian Writers Since 1960: Second Series, Volume 60 by W. H. New
  • Dictionary of Literary Bibliography - Canadian Writers Since 1960: First Series, Volume 68 by W. H. New
  • Dictionary of Literary Bibliography - Canadian Writers Since 1960: First Series, Volume 53 by W. H. New
  • Profiles in Canadian Literature: Volume 6 by Jeffrey M Heath
  • Profiles in Canadian Literature: Volume 5 by Jeffrey M Heath
  • Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Series, Volume 5 by Ellen Quigley, Robert Lecker and Jack David
  • Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Series, Volume 3 by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley

Untitled (p. 161-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Poésie Québécoise Contemporaire by Jean Royer