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IN ENGLISH

SELECTED BY & ROBERT WEAVER

Toronto Oxford New York OXFORD UKIVERSITY PRESS 1995 Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii

INTRODUCTION By Margaret Atwood x i i

ETHEL WILSON • •• (1888-198O) (1926-1987) Haply the Soul of My Grandmother 1 The Mask of the Bear 76

MORLEY CALLAGHAN JAMES REANEY (19O3-199O) (1926) All the Years of Her Life 9 The Bully 92

THOMAS H. RADDALL HUGH HOOD (1903-1994) (1928) The Wedding Gift 14 Getting to Williamstown 101

SINCLAIR ROSS (19O8) (193O) The Lamp at Noon 26 < The Duel in Cluny Park 110

JOYCE MARSHALL (1913) (1931) The Old Woman 34 The Jack Randa Hotel 131

HUGH GARNER JANE RULE (1913-1979) (1931) One-Two-Three Little Indians 44 The End of Summer 149

MAVIS GALLANT AUSTIN C. CLARKE (1922) (1932) Scarves, Beads, Sandals 53 Griff! 156

NORMAN LEVINE (1923) (1933-1985) • 'i Something Happened Here 65 Share and Share Alike 171 v CLARK BLAISE (1934) (194O) The Woman Who Talked to Horses 178 A Class of New Canadians 277

RUDY WIEBE CYNTHIA FLOOD (1934) (194O) Where Is the Voice Coming From? 185 The Meaning of the Marriage 284

GEORGE BOWERING (1935) (1942) The Hayfield 193 Flowers for Weddings and Funerals 292 W.P. KINSELLA (1935) MATT COHEN Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to (1942) Iowa 199 Trotsky's First Confessions 297

CAROL SHIELDS ISABEL HUGGAN (1935) • , , (1943) Milk Bread Beer Ice 210 Celia Behind Me 307

AUDREY THOMAS THOMAS KING (1935) (1943) Bear Country 218 One Good Story, That One. 313

ALISTAIR MACLEOD

(1936) -. , (1945) : As Birds Bring Forth the Sun 224 Deer Heart 318

BARRY CALLAGHAN BRONWEN WALLACE (1937) (1945-1989) The Black Queen 230 For Puzzled in Wisconsin 326

JOHN METCALF (1938) . (1948) The Years in Exile 233 Swain Corliss, Hero of Malcolm's Mills (now.Oakland, ), MARGARET ATWOOD November 6, 1814 333 (1939) True Trash 247 MARGARET GIBSON (1948) W.D. VALGARDSON Making It 338 (1939) God is Not a Fish Inspector 267 Contents \ VM

KATHERINE GOVIER (1948) (1953) Sociology 352 Transfigurations 398

BARBARA GOWDY (1950) (1954) We So Seldom Look on Love 357 Red Plaid Shirt 404

& LINDA SVENDSEN (1951) (1954) Dancing Bear 367 White Shoulders 413

ROHINTON MISTRY NEIL BISSOONDATH (1952) (1955) The Ghost of Firozsha Baag 379 Digging Up the Mountains 423

DIONNE BRAND (1953) (1963) Sans Souci 390 The Chmarnyk 436

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 442

INDEX 461