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Author: Clint Hutzulak
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Oct 2002
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by Mary-Lou Zeitoun
Porcupine's Quill
142 pages $14.95
ISBN: 0889842329
|  | Donovan's Station
by Robin McGrath
Killick Press
193 pages $16.95
ISBN: 1894294424
|  | The Beautiful Dead End
by Clint Hutzulak
Anvil Press
202 pages $14.95
ISBN: 1895636396
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First Novels
by W.P Kinsella
What a pleasure it is to read a novel that is highly original, clearly written and full of memorable situations and observations. The Beautiful Dead End, by Clint Hutzulak, Anvil Press, $14.95, 202 pages, ISBN: 1895636396), in its first pages appears to be just another novel about lowlifes. Read more...
| Apr 2002
Brief Reviews
by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Fiction
Step into Clint Hutzulak's sepulchral world. The Beautiful Dead End (Anvil press, 202 pages, $14.95 paper, ISBN: 1895636396) is a place of necrophilia, jealous murder, hard drinking, hard using, loveless sex, suicide and disappearance. Everything about this book is falling awayłthe plot, the prose, the characters, the landscape. It is all in the state of ghostly transference. Read more...
| Apr 2003
 | Heave
by Christy Ann Conlin
Doubleday Canada
322 pages $29.95 paper
ISBN: 0385658079
|  | Spelling Mississippi
by Marnie Woodrow
Knopf Canada
386 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0676974317
|  | Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson
Knopf Canada
291 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0676974791
| |  | Stay
by Aislinn Hunter
Polestar
269 pages $21.95 paper
ISBN: 1551925680
|  | The Beautiful Dead End
by Clint Hutzulak
Anvil Press
202 pages $14.95
ISBN: 1895636396
|  | The Wrong Madonna
by Britt Holstrom
Cormorant Books
399 pages $22.95 paper
ISBN: 1896951368
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2002łAnother Batch of Winning Fiction. The Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Award Shortlist
by W.P. Kinsella
Three of the finalists were reviewed in my first 2002 first novels column. I had hoped this would be a spectacular year, but unfortunately the quality didn't quite hold up. Looking the year over, the overall quality of the 2002 novels differed little from that of 2001. The best books were world class, the worst left me wondering why I subject myself to reading 50/60 first novels a year.
Last year, 2001, was the year of the boarding school novel, most of them pretty awful Read more...
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