Posts Tagged ‘Fiction’
Losing It
Stephen Tesher is a playwright whose work has been performed in Toronto and New York. He earned an MFA in play writing from The New School and an MA in Education from City College of New York. He teaches 7th grade English in Nyack, New York. Manuscript Available Losing It A dark tragic-comedy of floundering, reckless…
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Susan Ferrier MacKay is a journalist and writer who lives outside Toronto. HarperCollins, North America, 2014 Droemer, Germany 2014 Butterfly of Venus An Erotic Novel At age 40, Elizabeth Harding has been harboring a sexual secret. Despite her worldliness as a woman, and as head of a hugely successful music talent management company, she has…
Read MorePraise for Howard Engel
“Mr Engel is a born writer, a natural stylist…This is a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines.” Ruth Rendell “Engel can turn a phrase as neatly as Chandler…Benny Cooperman novels [are] first-class entertainment, stylishly written, the work of an original, distinctive, and distinctively Canadian talent.†Julian Symons “Benny Cooperman…
Read MoreSTICKLER AND ME
Raincoast Canada 2002 STICKLER AND ME Benjamin Marshall, age 13, chooses to spend his summer vacation with his cranky grandfather Ira instead of going to camp. It is not an easy time for either of them. Ben’s parents are in the midst of a divorce and his grandfather faces a professional dilemma. Ira has practised…
Read MoreST. FARB’S DAY
Lester & Orpen Denny’s CAN/90Seal Books CAN/91 ST. FARB’S DAY Farb is a lawyer, and like most lawyers he is not an obvious candidate for secular sainthood. But one gruelling Friday, Farb is tested. He becomes ensnared in a conflict of interest between two major clients over a real estate sale. His estranged, but still…
Read MoreTHE ABRAMSKY VARIATIONS
“Morley Torgov calls to mind the early Malamud and Bellow.”Publishers Weekly Lester & Orpen Dennys CAN/77Penguin Books 1978
Read MoreWHY ROCK THE BOAT
O/P WHY ROCK THE BOAT Comic novel of a young reporter’s life and loves in 1940s Montreal. Feature film produced by the NFB.
Read MoreTHE UNDERDOGS
O/P THE UNDERDOGS Controversial satire of Quebec separation. Adapted for a successful play staged in Montreal in 1998.
Read MoreCrazy About Lili
“It’s a happy publishing season that includes a new book by William Weintraub.â€The National Post “Crazy About Lili is a funny, farcical, and thoroughly engaging look back.â€The Globe and Mail “Weintraub is adept at playing the historical tease, sprinkling in enough actual facts and local colour to give…credence to his jocular coming-of-age tale.â€The Montreal Gazette Awards:Leacock Medal…
Read MoreThings Are Going to Slide
Praise for No Defense:“Wallace avoids any Grisham-come-lately clichés in this interesting novel of southern justice… This page-turner of a novel is refreshing in it’s uncommon perspective, as opposed to the usual legal novel that focuses on lawyers.†Booklist “Rangeley Wallace has written a taut, compelling Southern drama that is cut from the same cloth as Harper Lee and the early William Faulkner.â€Winston…
Read MoreLove is Merely a Madness
Praise for No Defense: “Wallace avoids any Grisham-come-lately clichés in this interesting novel of southern justice… This page-turner of a novel is refreshing in it’s uncommon perspective, as opposed to the usual legal novel that focuses on lawyers.†Booklist “Rangeley Wallace has written a taut, compelling Southern drama that is cut from the same cloth as Harper Lee and the early William…
Read MoreTHE OUTSIDE CHANCE OF MAXIMILIAN GLICK
“A beautiful book…”Antonine Maillet Awards:The Leacock Medal For HumorWinner of the Torgi AwardAward-winning film showing in Europe22-part TV series showing in Europe J’ai Lu France/94Atelier du Pere Castor France/94Panorama Czech/94/95Raincoast CAN/ReissueSalani Italy 2005 THE OUTSIDE CHANCE OF MAXIMILIAN GLICK A timeless gem about a boy choked by parental love. Two men clear his path to…
Read MoreTHE WAR TO END ALL WARS
“The War to End All Wars is a satirical, plot-driven narrative enhanced by Torgov’s fast-paced, polished prose, whimsically weaving the cosmopolitan with the provincial.”The Globe & Mail “Torgov has a good way with words, and the novel’s opening sentence would be right at home in a great war novel like All Quiet on the Western…
Read MorePUNCH LINE
“Finally! Joey Slinger has written his first novel–and it’s about damn time. Punch Line is a raucous tale, deftly told, of murder and its machinations, set in a nursing home peopled entirely with eccentrics. A terrific read.”Will Ferguson “Joey Slinger lures you into an ominous geriatric world where you shudder and wince in those moments when you’re not…
Read MoreNina, The Bandit Queen
Joey Slinger’s wild and dark imagination, his subversive humor, and his surprising arcs of fancy have attracted passionate fans to his humor column which appeared several times a week in the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper. He has published two collections of his columns: No Axe Too Small to Grind, which won the Leacock Medal for Humour and If…
Read MoreCLAPP’S ROCK
McClelland and Stewart (CAN)Overlook Press (US) CLAPP’S ROCK A comic novel of politics, sex and power set in Newfoundland, Canada’s distinct island province in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Backlisted
Read MoreTHE ICE EATERS
Lester & Orpen, Dennys THE ICE EATERS “The best Canadian novel of 1987,” a personal and literary quest by an urban business man through the Yukon.
Read MoreTHE ABERHART SUMMER
REBIRTH OF A CLASSIC: It is very rare for a novel to be reissued, especially after more than a decade in out-of-print limbo. Such is the power of The Aberhart Summer to live in memory and once again on the page.First published in 1983, it appeared to wide acclaim, then faded. A successful stage adaptation in 1998/99…
Read MoreALDERSHOT 1945
“A solid historical whodunit with a great plot… The historical background is excellent, and Powe makes great use of his first-hand knowledge of the period and his extensive research into the events. A terrific novel, and not just for history buffs.”The Globe and Mail ALDERSHOT 1945 Bruce Allen Powe, author of the much loved classic…
Read MoreThe Bean Counter
Praise for The Aberhart Summer “… A wonderful portrait of the time and place…A marvelous sense of the smell and the emotion…â€John Ralston Saul “The writing of Bruce Allen Powe is like the Great Depression itself: spare, lean, and covered with a textured grit that owes much to the winds of imagination.â€The Toronto Star “A tale…
Read MoreShuttle
Futura Publications 1981 (OP) Bev Editions e-book 2012 Shuttle A Shattering Novel of Disaster in Space Edwards Air Force Base: the giant Hypersonic Jet Yorktown with the Shuttle Columbia clasped to her back, climbs to the sky. Their pioneering mission: to launch the Shuttle into space from the edge of the atmosphere. Neither craft will…
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