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McClelland & Stewart Ltd.

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan E. Coyote
sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar
Letters in a Bruised Cosmos by Liz Howard
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Dearly by Margaret Atwood
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Sonnet's Shakespeare by Sonnet L'Abbé
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
Lampedusa by Steven Price
The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand
The Cariboo Horses by Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Brother by David Chariandy
The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada’s Writers by Roy MacSkimming
Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida by Roo Borson
The Mysteries by Robert McGill
The Bird Factory by David Layton
The Tent by Margaret Atwood
The Rookie: A Season with Sydney Crosby and the New NHL by Shawna Richer
Hockey: A People's History by Michael McKinley
Naked in Academe: Celebrating Fifty Years of Creative Writing at UBC by Rhea Tregebov
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
The Purchase by Linda Spalding
10:04 by Ben Lerner
The Plouffe Family by Roger Lemelin
The Age by Nancy Lee
Malcolm Lowry by William H. New
The Big Stuffed Hand of Friendship by Norman Newton
Watcha Gonna Do Boy . . . Watcha Gonna Be? by Peter Taylor
Scratch One Dreamer by David Lewis Stein
Selected Poems by Ralph Gustafson
The Personal Heresy by Robin Skelton
The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler
The Master of the Mill by Frederick Philip Grove
Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
The Rebellion of Young David and Other Stories by Ernest Buckler
Dragon Lady by Silver Donald Cameron
Shore Lines by Roy Macgregor
Spirit Wrestler by James Houston
Fall By Fury & Other Makings by Earle Birney
The Tightrope Dancer by Irving Layton
The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone by Matt Cohen
Havelock Ellis: A Biography by Phyllis Grosskurth
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
The Promised Land by Pierre Berton
Banting: A Biography by Michael Bliss
From the Heart: Folk Art in Canada by McClelland & Stewart and The National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada
If You Love This Country by Laurier Lapierre
A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Curiosity: A Love Story by Joan Thomas
Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart
Dance on the Earth by Margaret Laurence
Cities of Refuge by Michael Helm
Practical Jean by Trevor Cole
Gabrielle Roy: A Life by François Ricard
Eastern Passage by Farley Mowat
Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother by Maggie Siggins
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane
Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
The Door by Margaret Atwood
Bay of Spirits: A Love Story by Farley Mowat
Otherwise by Farley Mowat
Marie-Anne by Maggie Siggins
Full Time: A Soccer Story by Alan Twigg
The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are by Andrew Cohen
Asylum by André Alexis
Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic by Val Ross
Pierre Berton: A Biography by A. B. McKillop
The Dream World by Alison Pick
From Harvey River: a memoir of my mother and her people by Lorna Goodison
The Journey Prize Stories 19: The Best of Canada’s New Writers by Caroline Adderson, David Bezmozgis and Dionne Brand
Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing by Donna Bailey Nurse
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Certainty by Madeleine Thien
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
The Polite Revolution by John Ibbitson
Measuring Mother Earth by Heather Robertson
The Blue Hour of the Day by Lorna Crozier
The Years of Fire: Charles the Bold, Volume 2 by Yves Beauchemin and Wayne Grady
Strike/Slip by Don McKay
The Fearsome Particles by Trevor Cole
Quick by Anne Simpson
Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation by Michael Crummey and Greg Locke
Damage Done by the Storm by Jack Hodgins
The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting by Darren Wershler-Henry
Salamander by Thomas Wharton
Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage by Katherine Govier
Runaway by Alice Munro
In the Place of Last Things by Michael Helm
I'll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers by Anne Coleman
There is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden by Patrick Lane
How Happy to Be by Katrina Onstad
Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory by Linda Spalding
Bringing Back the Dodo: Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History by Wayne Grady
Momentary Dark: New Poems by Margaret Avison
Inventory by Dionne Brand
Mitchell: The Life of W.O. Mitchell: The Years of Fame, 1948-1998 by Ormond Mitchell and Barbara Mitchell
A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart
Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: a Biography by Robert Thacker
The Journey Prize Stories: From the Best of Canada’s New Writers by James Grainger and Nancy Lee
The Time In Between by David Bergen
Beyond This Point by Holley Rubinsky
Blood Sports by Eden Robinson
This is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada by Noah Richler
The Journey Prize Stories 18 by Steven Galloway, Zsuzsi Gartner and Annabel Lyon
April Fool by William Deverell
Norman Bray in the Performance of his Life by Trevor Cole
Garbo Laughs by Elizabeth Hay
Baseballissimo by Dave Bidini
Distance by Jack Hodgins
For Art's Sake by W. O. Mitchell
Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin and Sheila Fischman
The Wreckage of Play by John Steffler
Left Behind in Squabble Bay by Jack Hodgins
The Ice Master: A Novel of the Arctic by James Houston
The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
Land to Light on by Dionne Brand
The Journey Prize Anthology by Jim Snyder
Things As They Are? by Jim Snyder
The Afterlife of George Cartwright: A Novel by John Steffler
The Chrome Suite by Sandra Birdsell
China Blues by D. Donnell
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The City of Yes by Peter Oliva
No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod
The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
Asphodel by Michael Redhill
The Crack in the Teacup: The Life of an Old Woman Steeped in Stories by Joan Bodger
The Question by Austin Clarke
The Sojourn by Alan Cumyn
Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux
Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy's Encounters with the Native World by Robert Hunter
A Saving Grace: The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley by Lorna Crozier
The Given by Daphne Marlatt
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Bernice Eisenstein
The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys
Orphic Politics by Tim Lilburn
Dead Girls by Nancy Lee
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Bay of Love and Sorrows by David Adams Richards
The Beothuk Saga by Bernard Assiniwi and Wayne Grady
Losing It by Alan Cumyn
Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
Gabrielle Roy: A Life
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Broken Ground by Jack Hodgins
What the Living Won't Let Go by Lorna Crozier
An Evening with W.O. Mitchell by Barbara Mitchell and Ormond Mitchell
Things that Keep and Do Not Change by Susan Musgrave
Confessions of an Igloo Dweller by James Houston
Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke
Any Time At All and Other Stories by Joyce Marshall
Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories by Shyam Selvadurai
The Book of Secrets by M. G. Vassanji
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Anonymity Suite by David McFadden
Burridge Unbound by Alan Cumyn
The Journey Prize Anthology 2000 by Catherine Bush, Marc Glassman and Hal Niedzviecki
The Closer We Are to Dying by Joe Fiorito
The Next Canada: In Search of Our Future Nation by Myrna Kostash
Writing Home: A PEN Canada Anthology by Constance Rooke
Two Solitudes: Conversations by Margaret Atwood and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
The Englishman's Bay by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant
The Two-Headed Calf by Sandra Birdsell
The Origin of Waves by Austin Clarke
Away by Jane Urquhart
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Who Do You Love? by Leon Rooke
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Margaret and Al: Margaret Laurence-Al Purdy. A Friendship in Letters by John Lennox
Thirsty by Dionne Brand
Way Out West: On the Trail of an Errant Ancestor by Michael Shaw Bond
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
Blue Marrow by Louise Bernice Halfe
A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America by Peter Firstbrook
In A Glass House by Nino Ricci
The Journey Prize Anthology 11: Short Fiction from the Best of Canada's New Writers by Sheldon Currie
The Macken Charm by Jack Hodgins
Human Amusements by Wayne Johnston
A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction by Jack Hodgins
An American Spy Story by David Gurr and Terry Goldie
All There Is of Love by Sandra Kolber
Heaven Take my Hand by David Weisstub
Rocky Mountain Foot by George Bowering
The Whole Bloody Bird by Irving Layton
Hunting Tigers Under Glass by Mordecai Richler
The Canadian Indian: The Illustrated History of the Great Tribes of Canada by Fraser Symington and Eric Nicol
A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence
Inventing the Hawk by Lorna Crozier
Excessive Joy Injures the Heart by Elisabeth Harvor
Dance on the Earth: A Memoir by Margaret Laurence and Colin Nicholson
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
For Your Eyes Alone: Robertson Davies. Letters 1976-1995 by Judith Skelton Grant
Fields of Vision by Phil Jenkins