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Author: Ian McGillis
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JanFeb 2003
 | A Tourist's Guide to Glengarry
by Ian McGillis
Porcupine's Quill
185 pages $19.95 paper
ISBN: 0889842469
|  | Some Girls Do
by Teresa McWhirter
Polestar
148 pages $21.95 paper
ISBN: 1551924595
|  | Stay
by Aislinn Hunter
Polestar
269 pages $21.95 paper
ISBN: 1551925680
| |  | Tiger Dreams
by Almeda Glenn Miller
Polestar
363 pages $21.95 paper
ISBN: 1551925729
|  | How the Blessed Live
by Susannah M. Smith
Coach House Books
168 pages $18.95 paper
ISBN: 1552451003
|  | An Expectation of Home
by Larry Lynch
Gasperau Press
301 pages $21.95 paper
ISBN: 189403161X
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First Novels by W.P Kinsella
by W. P. Kinsella
How the Blessed Live by Susannah M. Smith (Coach House Books, $18.95, 168 pages, ISBN: 1552451003). With beautiful language and the lyrical voice of a poet Smith carries off this retelling of the Isis/Osiris myth. What makes the novel work is that the reader does not need to know the myth to enjoy the story. When the twins Lucy and Levi are born their mother, Wren, dies. They are raised by their grief-stricken father in an idyllic setting on an island on Lake Ontario. Read more...
| Apr 2003
Innocence in Glengarry
by Andrew Steinmetz
Set in a suburb of Edmonton, A Tourist's Guide to GlengarryùIan McGillis's gentle, dignified, poignant, and seriously funny first novelù is the narrative of a day in the life of Neil McDonald, a grade four student with an idiot savant's penchant for baseball and music. The book opens with 9-year-old Neil sitting in Irene's, a local diner, on the night of the second game of the 1971 World Series (Pittsburgh Pirates versus Baltimore Orioles). Read more...
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