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Author: Michel Basilieres
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Sep 2003
 | If Black Bird
by Michel Basilieres
Knopf Canada
310 pages $34.95
ISBN: 0676975275
|  | Mercy
by Alissa York
Random House
332 pages $32.95
ISBN: 0679311645
|  | Ten Thousand Lovers
by Edeet Ravel
Review Press
372 pages $24
ISBN: 0755303709
| |  | Kalyna's Song
by Lisa Grekul
Coteau Books
240 pages $18.95
ISBN: 1550502255
|  | When She Was Electric
by Andrea MacPherson
Polestar
251 pages $21.95 paper
ISBN: 1551925966
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First Novels
by W.P. Kinsella
Mercy, by Alissa York, (Random House, $32.95, 332 pages, ISBN: 0679311645) is a strange, dark novel about terribly damaged people that has its own chilling charisma. There are two parts to the book and they come very close to being two separate novels. The first, which could be subtitled "Catholic Guilt", begins with a new priest, Father August, coming to the self-consciously named town of Mercy, Manitoba. The priest is a prissy, maladroit prig, the son of a town prostitute. Read more...
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