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Author: Barbara Gowdy
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Sep 1995
All in the Family
by John Degen
Gowdy takes the facade of a stereotypical nuclear family, the Canarys (Mom, Dad, three daughters, and a grandmother), and mixes in a healthy dose of the fabulous. Read more...
| Oct 1992
Perfectly Abnormal
by Eric McCormack
This politically incorrect collection of stories is one of the most enjoyable reads to come my way this year. Qualities that lurked in Barbara Gowdy's two previous books are here brought to the fore. Read more...
| Dec 1989
Swept Away
by Merna Summers
THERE ARE some writers who come winging in on you on the first-page and then just never let up. Barbara Gowdy is one of these. She knows how to move a story along, and Failing Angels is an amazing story: full of surprises, and alternating between horror and high comedy. It is rather as if Jayne Anne Phillips and Anne Tyler were holding the same pen.
Failing Angels concerns the family life of five of the most interesting characters to walk the pages of recent fiction. Read more...
| Apr 2003
 | The Romantic
by Barbara Gowdy
HarperCollins
371 pages $38.95 cloth
ISBN: 0002005050
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Love Unto Sickness ù Subverting Romance
by Linda Morra
Barbara Gowdy is apparently captivated by humans who fall, literally and metaphorically, as demonstrated in the opening sequences of two previous books: in "Resurrection" of Fallen Angels (1989), Jim's wife loses her balance on the roof of their house and plummets to her death, prefiguring at least one other fatality and resonating figuratively throughout the work; and in Mister Sandman (1995), Joan Canary tumbles "head-first onto the floor" at her birth, causing brain damage that (paradoxical Read more...
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