Beneath the Western Slopes
(stories) Toronto:
Stoddart Publishing, 1987
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Beneath
the Western Slopes
This debut collection of prize winning stories
introduces a cast of characters who yearn for beauty in what appears
at first glance to be a small town on the Pacific coast of Mexico but
is really any place formed by the power of desire and dream. Many characters
featured in this opening book in The Boat In the Stars
become resurrected to play central roles in the trilogy's closing volume
The Reincarnation of Linda Lopez. |
Birthmarks
(stories) Toronto:
Penguin Books Canada, 1990
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Birthmarks
A mosaic of short fiction
exploring the ways in which we must seek to understand and accept the
marks that are placed upon us even as we struggle to move beyond them.
This groundbreaking book takes the reader on a journey as dark as it
is disturbing. |
God's Peculiar Care
(novel) Toronto:
Viking Penguin, 1991
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God's Peculiar Care
The lost autobiographical
manuscript of the doomed actress Frances Farmer surfaces to serve as
an unlikely touchstone in the search for salvation through the stylized,
cinematic world of this cult classic. Je t'aime, Jane Bowles. |
Love Is Starving For Itself
(stories) Toronto:
The Mercury Press, 1994
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Love Is Starving for Itself
In the second volume of The Boat In the Stars, the
most beautiful girl in town runs off with the carnival and immediately
becomes transformed into a legend which holds her responsible for the
death of love in this love-obsessed landscape and which insists that
an end to longing and loss will occur only when Linda Lopez returns. |
The Lost Oasis
(novel) Toronto:
McClelland & Stewart, 1995
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The Lost Oasis
A son travels to the Sahara desert in search of his missing father,
and to discover why all the members of his family have become lost to
each other. This novel is part of The Brale Chronicles
- the sequence of books which explore three generations of a family
from its immigration to Canada in 1900 to the diaspora that is suffered
by one of its branches and documented here. |
The Truth About Love
(stories) Toronto:
Key Porter Books, 2001
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The Truth About
Love
What seems at the beginning to be a story sequence set squarely in the
tradition of Canadian Gothic, and to be a further volume in The
Brale Chronicles, turns into a work of steadily mounting pain
and horror that makes Birthmarks resemble child's play. |
The History of a
Hopeful Heart
(fiction) Binghampton, NY:
The Haworth Press 2008
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The History of a Hopeful Heart
Forthcoming fiction.
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