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Author: Emma Richler
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NovDec 2001
First Novels
by W.P Kinsella
Kevin Chong, another of that talented young group of UBC writing graduates, gives us Baroque-a-nova (Penguin Books, 232pages, $24.00, ISBN: 0141000252). Saul St. Pierre is your typical confused 18-year-old, but manages well considering he lives with his ex-stepmother, and is the son of a famous folksinging duo from the 70s. The novel covers eight days in Saul's life, from the time he learns that his long vanished mother has committed suicide in Thailand, to the day of her funeral. The St. Read more...
| Jul 2001
 | Sister Crazy
by Emma Richler
Knopf Canada
215 pages $29.95 paper
ISBN: 067697385X
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All In The Family. Another Richler Success
by T. F. Rigelhof
Sister Crazy is Emma Richler's first book and she begins where most good (and she is very good) fiction writers do, close to home, digging deep into the lived experience of childhood. This is riskier business for her than for most writers because some of her territory overlaps with that of the most trenchant and seriously comic novelist this country has yet produced, Mordecai Richler, her father. Read more...
| Apr 2005
A Review of: Feed My Dear Dogs
by T.F. Rigelhof
"Jude always said a kid is supposed to get acclimatized to the great
world and society and so on, and just as soon as he can bash around on
his own two pins, but the feeling of dread and disquiet I experienced
on leaving home in my earliest days was justified for me again and
again on journeys out, beginning with the time Zachariah Levinthal
bashed me on the head for no clear-cut reason with the wooden mallet
he had borrowed from his mother's kitchen. It did not hurt much, as I
was wearing my Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat with both ear flaps
tied up neatly in a bow on top, providing extra protection from
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| Dec 2005
A Review of: Feed My Dear Dogs
by W.P. Kinsella
I've been holding this book for months, I guess in the hope that it would become easier to read. I tried several times but got bogged down in the first few pages. It is an impressionistic fictional memoir of the childhood of five precocious children in the Weiss family. The narrator, Jem, is the same as in Richler's earlier book, Sister Crazy-only this time the work is not nearly as interesting. Read more...
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