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.’ \ii,\ ‘k .., ,_ ! ,);’ Gone htdlan. Raised ‘an average Caucasi an: Gill Reid “0-dI k ttbe Haida’s INemost artist. ByEve Johnson Lat Us NOW Appraise Famous Men. Was i thsra ever a 1 pal who didn’t believe hk story merited a place in history? BY Jack MacLeod 12 fan6tt far a Natlon. Aen L&esaue’s owernmsnt was doomed because it worked w well within the system it opposed. By I.M. Owen 14 Arf aad Artlffaa. Tbe ssason’s gin books in rsvisw, from the science of landscapes to th8 art of microchips. SY John Ouohton 24 Grlaf lIevIews. Short notices on rscsnt non%tion and poetry.

Tba Tslllna P‘ Llas. bv Ttmoth” Flndlev hrorak fa caafw, by Ray _. . Tha Impartal Calnadlan: Vlnesaf Massey In Olflce. by Claude Giswll Daaca wGb Gad ra, by Irving Laylon; Ths Geskaeper’s llauohlar. by Smcs Hunter: Small Hanas and lntlmats Beasts. by Mikbsl Gameau. translated fmm tbe French by Robert McGee I 21 Vlmy. by Pierre Gsrton 23 GN&efkma. bv Janette Tumer tlosniial A CGy Called July. by Howard Engil .._..__._____.._~A GbUds ftaan. bv Erfa Wright Encnuntm and Etq plomtlsns: Canadian Wrlten and Eurapsan Crllles. edited by Franz K. Stanzel and Wsldemar Zacharaslawfcz; VarleGes of Eslle: Ths Canadian blpsrlIsme,by Hallwrd IDsblle 31 Tha Play of tha Gyea. by Elias Canettt. b ‘Bnslatsd fmrn thl3 Gen nan ty Ralph Msnheim 39 Dfshaa& and Tbs C&tsd Lattpar Pssma 1947-fS77. by Robin Sk&m da EPAlRVMEWVS 3 Ffeld Nate8 39 Letlen I 5 Esallrh. Our Enallah. bv Bob Slackburn 41 Rscammended ChIldma’s Go&, by b&y Ainslie Smith Reeelved Flrsf Navafs.._. b”_, 53U”las____._ Glmw_._..~ CanWG 1110. 115 latsrvlew with Susan Kerslake. by RI. Macdonald 42 CaaLlt AcmsGe No. 1. by Mary 0. Trainer

Matthew Gehraas Is a Tomnto freelance writer. Editor Gob Blackburn frequently contributes Mmments on English usage to thssa pages. Poet Maq dl Mlchale k at work on her first nwst. Barbara Carey’s latest poetry collsction. Undressing fhe Dark, will soon be published by Quarry Press. Tfm Chamberlain is an English instructor at Humber College. Poet and critic Flank Gawy’s new book. The Abbalshmi Suide lo I&, has just been published by Press Porc4ptc. JaN Ewaner is a shipper/receiver in Don Mills. Oat. Ray Flllp’s audiocassette of wngs. playing fhe RI.% has just been mlsased. GaDroe GIG’S cross-Canada travel book will be published In Februaw by Metbusn. Len Gasparlnl is a Tomato poet. Dsu~fas Glwsr’s most recent collectIon of short stories is Osg Ansmpfs lo lbmvn Man in Ssshafoon (Talonbooks). Weyas Grady is mssag- ing edttr of Hamwsmith magadne. Toronto altist Dawn Hood’s drawlngs appear thmsghout ths issue. Freelance writer Caffdaea Hssklns is associate edltor of Llssdnattm~. Eve Johnson is the art critic of the Vancower Sun Freelance writer R.F. Maedonald lit in Halifax. Barbara MacKay is a Tomato freelance writer and specialist In women’s studies. Ray Maclaran is the author of ffmwrsMe IW~~MM~, revfswsd on psgs 8 al tbls issue. Novelist and pollttcal scientkt Jack MaELead teaches at the University of Tomato. Alberfs Manpael’s anthology Evening Gmes: Chms of PamI and C/Mm will be pubiishsd sosn by Penguin. Ottawa poet Frank Manley edits tbs laerary magazfne Nsovo Masheen. Eva MeGrIds Is a Tomnto freelance writer. Sparllnp Mills is a Hatifas poet. Jan Noel lkcbsss In FrenchCanadIan history at York Unfvsrsity. Germand Mottoa is principal of Edndale College. Paul Orsnsfsln’a photographs of literary penonalitles appear frequentty in these pages. John llaphtan’s new book of poems. Mab Harir Los1 Wo&, WN be published nsxl spring & Rapweed Press. LM. Gwn is book cofum. nist for SucwsAd Ermcutivl magazine. Michael RIchardran Is currsntly complelfng an antbolotry 01 stories of the cb,wel@rwsr. Maw Alnslla Smilh writes lrsqueadty about chlklren’s books In these pages. Phll Sar~uy is a Tomnto writer and editor. Mary 0. Trainer is a lraelance wrftsr and punk-maker In Port Coquitlam. B.C. Poet and btbliigrapher Grace Whltsman lives in Hamilton. Oat.

EDITOR 0 Michael Smith MANAGING EDITOR 0 Doris Cowan GENERAL MANAGER 0 Susan Traer CIRCULATION MANAGER 0 Susan Aihoshi ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER 0 Beth Bruder CONSULTANTS 0 Robert Farrelly 0 Jack Jensen 0 Mary Lu Toms CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 0 Eleanor Wachtel (West Coast) 0 K.G. Pmberl (Prairies) 0 Shirley Knight Morris 0 Paul Wilson 0 Ray Filip (Quebec) 0 Terry Goldie (East Coast)

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EUJI~~~EA-~HSFZ. sunshhse.; snd Why is it a ghetto? (A ghetto is not all settlers to a society, the oppressed or soft breezes glxed our stay in van- bad-it is also a community, a support repressed, are gaining some repnxenta- cower a few weeks ago for the group, as well as a kind of exile.) Why Lion in media and the arts. How else no1 First National Conference of is the writer marginal? Because the to have their lives diminished? How else Italian-Csnadian Writers. I had writ@ is defined as “ethnic” or as to transcend OUT differences and discover come prepared for rain, the duck “other,” and therefore of sociological what is truly universal? Such are my head of my compacl umbrdla rather than literary interest. thoughts at home after a week of talk, thrusting its wooden beak out of There was a French term,-“l’itnagi- talk, talk, in three different languages. my flight bag. I remembered n&e,” that the titers from Quebec, One evening in Vamouva we *aw a another Italian-Canadian co”- primarily Pulvio Cacda and Anto”io performance of Manx. Micone’s play, fenam in May, 1984. in Rop~e, D’Alfonso. kept “sing. for which we Gens du Silence, translated as Voicelaw where I expected Mediterranean found no English equivalent. (The discos- People, whiCh portrays with compassion sun, hot a”d dry, and hstead found siona went back and forth in three the narrowed and often materialistic lives myself cold and damp, though “ot languages. English, French, and lfdia”.) of displaced people: misuable. My red leather shoes gave up “L’imaginaire,” as 1 understand it, is An immigrant worker is lar thpn a their soles in watery despair. cultural ?wlity,” the world BP it appears worker. An immigm”t father is less than The week inVanm”ver was very tightly in a novel or play or photograph or TV a father. &I immigrant husband is I.% scheduled, but rest assured that there wae program - what we “nderstsnd “life” tba” a husband. My house had to be big “a Fascists among us; the papers and to be through OUT arts. What Canada’s to contsin alI my dresms. It had to be panels, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., immigrant writers are doing for the beautiful lib ha on our wedding day. It had to be wam~ like Nancy when she began to form and collected a” audience culture is expmlding the tradition of “Sur- was still Annunziam. usually sometime after 10. Ma!&g my vival” to include a tradition of “the v:ay across town on the Broadway bus, journey.” What the women writers of the Recognizing the people in the play, I was I expected to be late, but found instead world are doing is expanding the male moved to tears. The theatre that night a lone and jet-hxgged George Amabilc thematic tradition of love and death to allowed me that recognition. I found a patiently and thoughtfully sipping coffee. include birth. kind of catharsis. Wedlcontinued to belate, “otfromlack The first time I encountered a dewip- So why should you be interested? He’s of enthusiasm butrrom lack of sleep. The tion of giving bii in literature was in “ot your father! Afrer a r4i”g.i” arguing and laughter that marked all the Doris Lessii’a “owl, A Pmper I&w Halifax a young student once told me that debates continued into the small hours, riuge. Georgia O’Keeffe painted. with he couldn’t relate to my poem about giv- on the beach or in r&aurants and cafes. originality and dating, female shapes, i”g birth, that I should wib about a more Where did all these ItalianCanadian fmm a” American landscape, not co”- universlrl experience. Is the problun a witers come from? A table was set up lack of negative capability, a failure to see featuring the works 6f the participants. how we are related? Are we more ready The hiitorical, literary, and critical to pm”ou?ce or denounce things as publications were numerous. The content foreign because they are not immediately was diverse. Those who had now recognizableasourown? MarmMimne, Italian-Canadian content in their work - who is a male, calls himself, and is, a and Anglo names like Ken Norris -had femi”ist playwright. He pointed out that come because they identified with a sen- the photographic show on display in the sibility and a history. (Norris was raised library where we met was entirely the by his Neapolitan mother and gmnd- work, and thus l’imaginaire, of me”. mother.) Less than IO years ago Pier Why did we come to this cmmtryl Giorgio di Cicco had to search among the Because people in post-war Italy in the very few and unknown in order to collect south were jobless and landless and submissions for his anthology of Italian- hungry. As Marco Mimne had said Canadian poets, Roman Candles. Is earlier that week, “We came to eat.” And Giorgio responsible for this pkolo wedidatthedbmerthat~t~wemade lilll?SCi~CnfO? taimd in the Western European tradition. OUT way through the many course& from The multindhual debate oRen gives me A more mundane example from popular antipasto to zappa h&se. It was a me”u a headache. Yet I know that if you write culture is a N.progwn like All in the so doquent that Pasquale Verdi&i0 was exclusively about the lives of immigrants Family. Before &chie Bunker, as far as moved, with little alteration and some you keep yourself marginal to Canadian television was concerned, au familii and wine, to pufonn it as a poem. Then we culture. In a similar way, wo”x” who neighbourhoods were like P~r/w+ws da”cedtotangosandMadonna.Thmwe confine thenuelves to a content that is Besl: all white and Anglo, and all right sang around the piano to the playing of predominantly and tmditiondly feminine and patriarchal at that. Genni Donati Guna, before we scattered find themselves in a female literary Thank God I’imoginuirC is changing. again across the continent. ghetto. Thank God that the lives of the new - MARY *I MlcHeL.6 i lHEeEwER6nvo new scre.en adaptaicns of Canadian novels at Tcmntc’s Festival of Festivala this fall. where Ihe River Runs Black, a U.S. production WCS on David Kendall’s Laznm (m-winner of the lhe Nailcnal Libraryof Canada hasreleasediwainvaluable acurce6 Seal First Novel Award in 1983). is an on- cf Infcrmaflcn an Canadian theses. These bccflr ~~mplenleni fhe ccovinciog. antimental fantasy set in produck and speclalfzed setviaes on theses wrliten in Canada, by Brazil. The cinematography is much .&m Canadians or about Canada prcvlded by the National Mbrary: CanadIana. Ihe naiicnai blbUcQmphy. which annually Ilsfs current 10 prettiness, with many starbursts of Mews: Canadkm Wses. a ils~ing of theses accepted fram 4947 to light pisoiog the mists of the Amazon .498D; Canad/an 7heses IMicrofiche). which ilsk theses wrliten since jungle. Moments of suspense and crisis 4980; and the Canadian Theses on Micmfiche Services. which has are a little too portmtoosly ennolmced by made available some 67 000 micrctlimed theses (about 70% cl the the thuddtng crescendo of a beanbeat on theses accepted by univerolfles in Canadal. the soundtrack; the producers are especially proud of their sound aystem (“recorded CompIeteIy in digital stereo”). Doctoral Research on Canada and CantsdIane, ‘1~1983, Kendall, while praising the fh, has also by Jesse J. Dosslck, lists doctoral dissertations on Canada vay gently and diplcmaticaUy disowned CI Canadians, wrliten In English or in French, accepled by uni- it - althcogb it was made from his book, veniiies in Canada, the United Statesand Great Brltaln, aswell he says, it is “their movie.” os some In Ireland and Australia from 1884 to the sprlng Leon Marr’s Dancing in ihe Dark. of 4983. Entries are orgcmlzed by subJeot In 29 subdlvlded based on Joan Barfoci’s 1982 ncvel of the sections. An author index follows, Including the special same name. is a different kfnd of produo numbers of the theses miarofllmed by the National Llbmry of ticn akogcther. It was vwy well received Canada. 559 pages. Catalogue number: SN3223ll986. ISBN d the Cannes Film Festival and its Lwc 0~6053227~. Price: $38.75 in Canada. $46.50 elsewhere showings duiog the Toronto festival were [prlces subject to change wIthout nolceJ. sold cut. It’s an intense, detailed stody

Theses in Canada: A Bibllogmphic kide. by Denis Robltaille - fhe kind und Joon Walser. records bysubleotareas thedooumentatlon of life fmm which she felt herself exclud- on theses completed for Canadian unlversltles. It Includes ed as a child sod young women. She bibliographies. theses lists by unlv.etsify. and specialized achiewsit, buttchexitseemsprecaricos, blbllographies with Nalional Libmry cull numbers, a list of a miracle, thaf she of all people is mar- dala bases with Canadian fheses enlrles. cm author Indexand ried to a kind, loving man. that she is o subject Index. 72 pages. Cutalogue number: SN3.8711986. “safe.” Her fe&w for her husband ISBN O&&l&3228X. Price: $8.SJl in Canada, $40.20 elsewhere hems tc be in large part .gatimde. fprioe subjeot to change without notlee). Edoa is an odd mbaore of selflessness and ioflawd pride. Obsessively, she Both publications ovallable from the Canadlcm Government labcurs to protect hw safe harbour by Puollshing Cent@ Supply end Services Cunada, Ottawa, caring for her home qnd h& husband with Cunada K4A 0% Telephone: @49l997-2560. a driven. oostintiog perfecdcnism. When the film opens, we see her writing in a Those who would llke to learn more about the polillcal. ouRural. notebook. Sheis io a psychiatric hospital, economic and social Issues which have been a main prlorify three years after the cawmphic endbIg of the provlncesslncethey Jclned the Cunadlan Confedera- of her marriage. HeT psychi&riSr, she Ilon. will salute the publloation of Provincial Royal CommlS -writes, is %xdioary - no match for rionr and CornmIssIons ol ItIqultyt Ag&&ve gibliogmplsy me. . . I make vast efforts at perfection. compiled by Lise Maillet. Disaster waits for mistakes.” But the disaster has happened. This nolionai reference tool Is produced by Ihe National Llbmry Bead& the novel, one wcldd ML thiok of Canada in cooperation wlfh the s4afl of provinolal leglsicriff it had any cioematio possibilities at all. Ilbrories. provinclol libraries and archlv’es It Iisis most of the It is a cmthucus interior monologue;

mental commlssionsjand Includesan lnd&toChairiiren’and one event Mm. who wrote the wreeo- Commissioners and a subject Index . play and directed the movie., vas at fust entirely alone in his mnvictkm tba a #i&c Tne elective blbllography can be o&fed from ihe Canadian could be made of it. “Nobody thought Government Publishing Cenire. $15.00 In Canada or $48.00 it could be done,” says Jcao Barfoot,. elsewhere. Catalogue number: SN3-24914985. ISBN O-660. “indudiog me. I didn’t know anything 531222. about film, but it just didn’t scan pos- sible. Leon thought otherwise.” Martha Henry’s wonderful perfcr- maoce~Edcais,liketf~asawhcle, remarltably faithful to the ori&dl, yet she gives an extra dimension to the chaacter. In the bock, Edna is guarded, paradti& both aespaalely lovba and Novel Award for Abm in 1978. Her most enlotio”auy paralysed. Henry surprises to s-. protectiv; of Eh”& recent’ novel, Duet for Three, wes us: the remoteness is there, underneath, more than any other cberacier I have in- published in 19g.5. but it’s not getting es but the lmmpected element is the ge”oi”e vented, I think. If myone triped to hurt much attention these days as Dancing in sweetness, the therm, of Edna’s outward or attack her. I would leap to protect theDark. (The movie opened in theatw self. She is always tease end feerfol, alert hex.” But, far fmm being mktmderstood across the country lest month.) Duetfor to danger. but she is hot celcoletin& or changed beyond recognition, the book Three is a fmely imagined and effective Barfoot, who had nothing to do with “was all there. It WBS whet I had character study. Would Barfoot like to the making of the film. admits to having invented, even down to the smallest see’it, too, made into a movie? “If Leon bee” very “ewoos about bow it would details.” did it,” she says, “I would.” torn out - understandably, in view of Berfoot won the Books i” Canada First - Ilcatls CUWAN

More troubling than functional illiteracy is the nllmber of ‘functionally Ilterate’ writers who cannot clearly convey the information they are paid to Impart Ey Bob Blackburn timcImrm4 * major wddy news- octrao”el red d&z” most result in some- deal of paper. but to someone witi”g on paper published in Ihe Toronto onesi death, is nOr as grrat a menace to it with a quill pen (and to sonteon~ area told us that “One in four in society as iv the mid communicator malt- reading the result), it would bee lot. Not Metro Toronto ere illiterate.” The ing ti contrib;tio” to the cateclysndc unreasonably. the plural form cane. in error is repeated in the caption of er6sio” of Bnglisb that is accanpenying couoqtdal use, to mean a great quantity en adjacent photograph. It also the so-called infommtiori explosion. of written material. It is abswd to use it appears io the text of the article, in in reference to what probably is miles of company with at least e doan SPEAKING OF erosion, the lion’s sham has wire. I expect my day to reed about other errors. Here is the opening come to be wed and understbod to mean someone drinldng reams of beer. paragraph: most. The phrase derives from one of A U.S. writer celled the 55 m.p.h. The stetistics M disheartening. Aesop’s fables, end was fomterly used es speedlimit “themost flau”tedlawin the scary. One out of four people ie a colourfol and ironic way of seying all. land.” I wes about to sbrog it off es MeVO over the asp of 15 are There is aboluWy no point in using it in another example of the common iuiterate. Twenty percmt ca”aot read or the sense it has acq ired. flao”taloot calf&ion, but the” reflected wite we” enough to enderamd a neys- This summer, whLl the Uoiversity,of that if toflmmt something ir to display rp;;z”tree’ sign or ffl out a lob Toronto’s new sop&computes w’as put it ostentatiously, well, there ere those into place, a CBC-TV reporter informed -of speed-limit sig”s everywhere you I guess I are that one. Possibly I can us that “scientists ti spend a week hook- look, and maybe it iv the ntost flaunted write well enough to understand a ing JIM reams of wire and cables. . . .‘I law. Somehow, though, I tbi”lc that the newpaper. whatever that “wms. but I Ream is a unit of measurement of rather writer was innocent.of my such sly wit. cannot reed well enough to under&end this one. I don’t eve” understand the I bate being undemdned by my ‘rithmetic. In my book. one in four are favourite dictionalies. I wes goi”g to 25 per cent, but since he doesn’t say 20 whine about the use of admlnlrlrote for per cent of what, who knows? administer, but there seems to be Enough of being flippant. There is a reasonable precedent for it. I sXill think terrible irony here. Obviously. the it’s an abomination. but will let it slide reporter, while be is bemoaning the sitoa- and go dn to complain about a few other tio” that he is attempting to dwxibe, is things: unaware that he is writing execrably. There is no such word es ancilliary. A Presumably he is referring to what “ow person who benefits fmm somethbxg is. is called funclionui illilcmey, whiih is e the bmeficiary, not the bmehtor. One serious enoogh problem. More troubling, doesn’t answer a how qoatio” with though, is the pexmtage of professional because. The ream” why end the ream writers and speakers who, to use the sane b because ere (or shmlld be) ulspwkable. terminology, could cleim to be func- Having been driven nigh tmto distra tionully liter&. but who camtot choose tion by pittim offering me U&s for words and place thrm in sentences in a f&e, I wes pleesed to read “piece of pm- way &it clearly and accurately conveys motional materiel for a magazine that the information they are being paid to tmcertsin value. since it hes denoted dif- praised me, among other tbinga infor- impart. That percentege, although I lolow ferent numbers ‘m different spplications. “tation on “how to rent the most popular of no studies to support my guess, must UsueUy, it mt Xl qoires. or 480 sheets, videocassettes free.” It wes not, however, . be 15 or higher. of pap-&. It was in oie of those tables we the abseoee of the offensive~rtbat made The person wvho’is functionally Illlter- were reqtdred to memorize whm I wes in me receptive to the offer, but the desire ate, while his inability to comprehend the school, but it is little used today. To a to baveit e&dnFd tontehow o”eeotdd significance of the letters sa-QP on an printer, say. a reel” would not be a gnat possibly rent anything free. 0 ad lhe Wbrld’s Water Cd&? The deflnitlve book on a crlsls that cmnot be

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Raised ‘an avera e Caucasian,’ Bill Reid rediscovered his aeritage in a Toronto museum and now is the Haida’s foremost artist By Eve Johnson

LOWtiED 0i-4 A high stool in his whether it be a well-educated child or a little killer wh&, is studio, Bill Reid makes minute cutd an occasion for joy. Joy is a well-made object.” on a tiny boxwood carving of a Reid, whose extmordinary artistic career gets its fmt fidl- q leaping killer whale. The lager “Q- length evaluation this fall in Doris shadbolt’s BUlReti (Douglas sion, 5.5 metres of cast bronze, & McIntyre, illustrated, 192 pages, $50.00 cloth), is the man stands outside the Vancouver who breathed life back into the corpse of Haida culture. Aquarium. From time to time, Through his superlatively w&made objects - the myths of Reid heaves himself up and lurches bear, eagle, killer whale, dogfish, and raven told in gold and over to a workbench for a different silver on bracelets, pendants, and boxes -Reid has drawn inter- tool, his gait made awkward and national +ttention to the art of the Indians of the Queen abrupt by the Parkinson’s disease Charlotte Islands. he has been f@ting for 13 years. Haida art died with the master artists of tbe 19th century.. While he repairs the killer whale’s tail, he Reid taught bimsdf the fomt, then raised the standa& from talks about the idea that sums up his their depths in the 1940s and 1950s. when self-taught carvers hphilosophy of art. made crude totem poles for souvenir shops, to a level of artistry “What we think of as joy.” he says in that equals the f-t historical examples. And he passed the tile authoritative tones of an ex-CRC staff knowledge along. Robert Davidson, the mast talented of a new mnouncer, “is just avoidance of stress. generation of carvers, created the Tluee Watchmen pole that Holidays, travel, and sex make life plea- stands in Toronto’s Royal L.ePage building. He mastered the sant and easy to put up with, but don’t art of his ancestors as a youth, in R&d’s Vancouve.r studio. do anything to make you feel at home in At 66, this bridge benwen the Haida artists of the 19th cm- your world. To produce something. tury and their carving great-grandsons is a tall. white-haired man who looks exactly like what he calls himself, “just a middle- class Wasp Canadian.” Reid and his third wife Martins. 40. an antbmpolagist at the University of British Columbia, live a decidedly Wasp life in a large apartment on Point 01, Road, acmes the street from the ocean in Vanmuver’s moneyed Kit- silano neighbourhood. They spent August in Prance and England, where Reid visited his “wonderful in-laws with whom I can’t cohtmunicate,” and “actwUy got champagmd out, almost.” Reid fits smoothly into the most rarefied of Vancouvcl’s many art communitirc. He has been a friend of Doris Sbadbolt and her husband, painter Jack Shadbolt, since the early 1950s. when she worked at the old Vancouver Art GdIery on Georgia Street and Reid had a studio in the building. His current Gmn- viUe Island studio, a vast warehouse mom in Vancouw’s newest fashionable ndghbourhood. l@ds a day model of the sdpture prcpo~ed for the new Canadian embassy in Washington. The architect of the embassy, Arthur Erickson, is another long-time friend. In fact, the canby’s best-known I&da artist is mt legally Haida. His mother married a German-Smts-American, and in the patriarchal eyea of the Canadian law lost her Indian status. In Haida culhxe, it’s the mother’s side ofthe family that passes 0” the inheritance. Unfortm&dy. Sophia Reid didn’t tldnk Haida culture was worth passing cm. Raised in Methodist board- ing schools she learned, Reid says. “the major lesson taught to the native pe&.s of OUT hemisphere during the fast half of this century - that it was somehow sinful and debased to be an Indian.” So Reid, born in Victoria in 19u), grew up as “an average Caucasian North American.” He was 23 before he visited his mother’s borne village of Skidegate, where be spent a week watcbbu his Haida grandfather, Charles Gladstone. carve. It

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was a qutct weeM Gladstone spoke no RngUsh and Rctd spoke no Halda. Rcld was lo any cast occupied by other pursuits. He got his fust job as a radio announcer in 1940 “scliin8 soap and play- ing records.” It wasn’t until 1948, when he was hired by CBC Toronto, that Reid rcdiscovacd Northwest Coast art through the coUcctlon at the Royal Ontario Museum. Working nights Thii impressive at the CBC, he enrolled in the jewcUcry-makIn8 course atRycr- reference book son Polytcchnicai Institute andset himself the task of conttn- presents both current uing the Halda jeweilery tradition. and historical informa- 1 In the early 195Os, no living artist could demonstrate the tion in a compmhen- 1 classtcai forms. much less canIain the urinclolcs b&bad them. siw portrait of Canada. Con&e text Reid’s first piece to be sold was a silver is enchanced by over bracelet raffled off for charity in 1951. pho&aphs, one of The woman who won it wanted matching the reasons why the Canada Handbook fs a earrings, but balked at the ‘excessive’ book no Canadian home, offfce or Ifbrary price of $35. This spring Sotheby’s should be without. sold a Bill Reid bracelet for $25,000 TheCanarJa L For teachers. Reid turned to artifacts, mastcrplcces of the old score of Canada and its neoole Order vow culture crowded onto shelves ln the basement of the B.C. Pro- copies from: Statistics Canada, F%blkation Sal&, vfnefat Museum. By 1957, when UBC anthropologists asked him Ottawa. Ontaria KIA lW3. Telephone (613) 9931276 to design and carvc the Haida pmject on the cliff behind the cnrrcnt Museum of Anthropology, Reid was a recognized Avdkable In both Rqtttsb tator@ Na ll-4OSE) ada L (Ctuatcgue No 11.4iiEFl tar 815.00 In Qnada, authority. He quit his job at the CBC and spat 3112 Years car- 816.50 III other ccuntrtes) vine house posts. totem nolcs. and a masslvc scul~twc of w&o. the sea Golf. - when Rctd bceao the Hakla house project, the UBC Museum of Anthropolog+as storcti in the b&mcnt of thcmain Ilbmry. Now it is an lntcmatlonally-known showplace for Northwest Coast art, with Rcll’s massive cedar carving The Ram md theFirs Men as its ccotrcptece. For four months this summer, much of the museom’s exhibit space was dcvotcd to a rctrospw tivc titled Bill Reid: Beyond the Essmliai Form. Reid not only rcsuscltatcd the form, he built a market for 7-h christma Northwest Coast art that now suppoaS more than 200 foU-time d&&t the art lovers on your lfst!. artists and craftsmen. Rcld’s first plccc to be sold was a silver bracelet rafficd off for charity ln 1951. TM woman who wou it wantcd matching earrings, but balked at what she considered an excessive price of $35. This spring. Sotheby’a sold a BIU Reid bmccIct for 885,000. While hc is not cntlrcly happy about “makIng a lot of other people rich,” Reid is far from bitter. “It’s gratifying to know that people think that highly of the work,” he says. When Rcld began to make Halda jcwcllcry his aim - “aside,” he says, “fmm makiig money” -was “to bring to AM&AN ILLUSTRATION 1890-19~5: the attention of the world the amaalng accomptishnrcnts Of Romsncc, Adventure & Sospense this small group of people whose entire Uvec seem to have been Ry Jadv 1. Larron, 524.95 concerned with an obsessive need to create v&made objects This unique bc& contains popular ilbumtto~ of Intcn~ power.” As his understanding of amlent Haida art fmm turn of the ccnuw books and pcriodicaIs. grew, so did his involvement with the people who now live in IMAGES OF -l-NE LAND: his mother’s village of Skffegate. In 1978, he carved the pole Canadian Block Prints 1919-1945 that stands at the fmnt of the Ski&g& band council office. Ry Pautcia Alnsitc $22.50 He has joined the tight to saws South Moresby Island from Winner of the prerdgtws Alcuin Award. logging; he refers to the giant logsing company MacMUian this stunning book b mast for art afficionad~ Bloedel as “rather difficult squatters to get rid of.” He design- NOTECARDS ed the 18~rnetrc Haida canoe for Rxpo 86 and super&d the can&g in a SkIdcgate carving shed, a pmjcct that cmploycd six carwm and raised village pride several notch.% Now he would like to start an apprcntlccshlp program in his stndio, with pahaps two young carvers at a time, “because we haven’t sue cccded in getting anything going ln the vlilagc.” Theideaofthewell-madeobj~tirffarawayaphetallcc. ” They’re &xtb to be making art in the style of thclr ancestors,” he says. “They ndght as wcU do it wcil.” 0

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right, but usually they are not. keeps on scribbl@ till chapter 20 with all. Memoir 1935-1960. by Robert A. To his credit, R.A. (Bob) Tweedie, a of the warmth and charm of Erik Nielsen Twedie, New Ireland Press, 200 pages. in drag. Copps is to (say) Flora E19.95 cloth (ISBN 0 920483 05 4). pmniers of New &mswick, has no Maedonald what Madonna is to ti Nobody’s Baby: A Woman’s Sarvlval pretensions to grandcur or eve” %tting Forrester. The book is embarmssii. Gaidc (0 Polltier, by Sheila Copps. the record straight.” He quotes C.L. My attention perked up with Honow- Deneau, MO pages, 919.95 cl9th (ISBN Sulzberger as saying: able Menlionsr. a diary by Roy MacLaren. 0 88879 135 6). . . . I remember how inaccurate dlties He is a cultivated ma”. After schooling Honoumble Me”tio”s: The U”com- can be. Once I played cards with Biren- at the U”hwsity of British Columbll and ma” Diary of a” MP. by Rw MacLara”. bower, Harriman, Gmeatba and Dan Cambridge., he was a foreign service Deneau, %O pages, ti.95-doth (ISBti Kimbau, U.S. secrelaly or the Navy, officer i” the Dqxutme”t of Bxtemal 0 88879 136 41. whlleaUdlscusxdthemcmoirs OfJainer AtTairs before becoming a Liberal MP for - Close to th; Charisma: My Yaab Be Formtal.6rst8euemyofDefenre.They BtobimhNmthinI979.Hisnarrowpar- - lwae” Lhe Press and Tmdtau, by Patrick had atte”ded a i”eed”g referred to lathe tisan mentality is relkcted in the awnlade Gossage. McClelland & Stewmt, 271 book and each & that For+al’s accou”t was wm”g. But when I asked. ha bestows on any advarsary he admlrrp pages, 524.95 cloth (ISBN 07710 3396 6). then. what was the *rue version, all (a” infnquent occumnce), David Cmm- Both My Houses: From Pollties to promptly disagreed among themxlves.. bie, for example: “He should have bea Prlaslhood, by Sean O’Sullivan with Rod Tweedie is one of the better and more a Liberal.” McQueen, Key Porter, 235 pages, $22.95 mod&of the writers represented here. Ma&arc.” was parliamentary assista”t cloth QSBN I 55013 002 1). His renlilii -are considered, gentle, to Marc Lalonde (he writes interesting Tbc Road Bach: A Llbeml t” Oppo. civilized, and somatbnea witty. Howaver, inside stuff about the creation of the sitlo”. by J.W. Pickersgill, University of National Energy Policy) and. although he Toronto Press, 249 pages, $29.95 cloth jaunty-account of bis drunken Uncle new became pmminent, rose in 1983 to (-lSBN 0 8020 2598 6). Charlie, On with Ihe L&mce subsides into the ranlr of minister of state for fmawa, The Rdmnaker: A Pa&o” for Palltla, local gossip and very. very lengthy stories a post he held for less than a year. He by Keith Davey, Stoddart, 356 pages, about the insufferable Lord Beawrbmok. does get off a few good lines (“Peckford $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0 7737 2090 1). The book trundles, but does not fly. always seems a half-hour behind”), but Whelan: The Ma” i” the Green Tweedie is a veritable’Samual Papys, he disappoints. Stetson, by Eugene Whelan with Rick however, compared to Sheila Copps. Her ItmustbetheMlesVanDRoheprl”. Archbold, Irwin, 307 pages, 819.95 cloth Nobody’s Baby (what a good title.!) ciple, Less is morr, thatdeludes Ma&area (ISBN 0 7723 I621 9). should have been a” important or at least into believing he has anything important ’ A Funny Way to Run a cOu”try, by interesting book. Undeniably we need ‘to say. No ordinary chap and no stranger Charles Lynch, Hurt&; 2l2pages. $19.95 more women active in oar politics, and to vanity, he drops casual referaxes to doth (ISBN 0 88838 294 0). Copps. a former Ontario MPP and pre- his London tailor, hmheo” with “‘a” ar- sent “rat pack” MP in Ottawa, is a feisty cellent pelil Chablis. properly chilled,” THERE ARE. to twist a phrase, lies,. exan~ple of ayoung woman who took the and a-cast of hundreds like “Barney, damned Lies, and memoirs, and this is uolltical ~hmae and staved afloat. It’s II”- TOW and Albtafr,” who are identifii in partifularly true of polllical mc”mirs with pondemus footnotea that should have their inevitable tenddency to be self- bee” in the text. MacLara” ip ingmuoas serving. Great fun, though, if we don’t enough to admit that on the “ight of Dec. take them too seriously. There are loads 13, 1979. wh6” Joe Clark’s govemment of laughs and insights for polkid junkies selfdastmcted, he WBI~ having dbms with in this autumn’s harvest of books by cur Tom d’Aquino. head of the Business politicians and their hangers-o”. These Council on National Issues and one of days, if you ever raa for aldennan in 0ttawa:s .deekcst lobbyists, and renamed Guelph or once held a door for Diifen. to d’Aquino*s party aftt the vote in the House. You know - just us poobahs, is likely to rash -forward with yelps of swan”i”g around and h&g preclc.us. glee, a contract, and promises to make a MaeLaM usefully_quo&s a speech cm best&let out of the pumped-up racoh fottunatc that. after smne tbwome Parliament%y Michael Pitfidd from the tlons of your six swell minutes in or near banalities (“Women understand the plush seats of the Senate.. the corridors of power. issues. We are concerned about the very A qua&n period too largely spent in Was then ever a pol or a pal’s fhmkie existence of oar country and oar sapc&iali*r and pos”ui”g . . . debates who did not believe that his story was planet”), Copps prweds to demonstrate fordayso”eadwhbhardlyaaymell.ua. interesting and important, a serious con- that she is shrill, shallow and vulgar. She bu . . . co”lmiueer rarely free from die tribution to history? Ah. if only tbey were has nothi tp say aftar chapter 12, but didalcrsldp of largu partisan p-pc

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tio~ in the House . . . P ministry that fubniaator agains $d Tories that kxt bf 1 cammtchaageitsmhw4 lestit beaccused 1 his$100,000medicalbi8duringhis~ OF collapsing . . . M Opposition against was paid by the public health insurance waything For Fcar of the gwequacat gsiaing credit For something. . . . l-he s&me that came into being largely as a Fccu is on ha&d. 011 personalities. on result of the efforts of a clergyman who imputations OF bad Fsitb sad bare motiva- “descended” into p&ics, Tommy tioa-rarelyons.. .Thecm- Douglas. Myopic and strange, this book, sequence is that Padiamml becomes hut intense and rradahle. more and more bound up with itsdf. lcrs The most careful, scholarly. and ueFu1 and leu relevsat to the commuaity. of these volumes is The Road Back by However, of the nine books considered Jack Pickersgill. Better than his earlier here, MacLaren’s is the mowquickly forgettable.. Not much better is Ciox to the c!hor&mu (a dismaying tide), the rccoueo Lions of a sometime press secretary in Trudeau’s PM0 named Patrick Oossage.. Although he doeJ not seem owly cerebral or reflective, he has written a” earnest book that offers glimpses of how memoir of the years with St. Laurent, this the news From Ottawa is managed tid wxktakes’usonamiaodetaUcdjowney from 1957 to 1963. The result is impres- imv i poor u&ding 8we his “life’s siw, heavy. The Royal Jelly that min& playus (or prevent) and arm&e fdr the cam and Feeding of the media folks. hhicint Freeing the memory of N&w Tom between conflicting loyalties to the i Jack. A dever though querulous House poUticalmanagersontheonesi&andthe Leader for Mike Pearson, Pickersgill press managees on tile other, ciossage rehearse.5 seemingly interminabIe mo- see&~ to have spent most of his time pant tions, procedural issues, and wrangles in in8 for a moment OF the PM’s attention. a precise, slow-paced, inFormative way. He’s foIwer W?in&g his hands over why He wadep imperiously through reams of his family doesn’t comprehend how close material to give his slanted but coming hk is to the seats of the mighty, or ing account of events ruch as Pearson’s Struggle and triumph in the wondering whether he should quit. He ridiculous invitation to Diefenhaker to jungles of Belie should have. r&go in 1958, changes in the Bmad- Someone who did quit politics is Sean casting Act, the Newfoundland loggers’ O’Sullivan. A sycophantic teenaged strike, and salary raises For Memhws of by Alan Rabinowitz. writer of Iettexs to’Diefe.nbaker and a ParUament. Hamilton MF’ at 26, O’SuUivaa (not the Pickersgill is expansive and persuasive boxer hut the fghter, as he puts it) was in remunting his view of the fting of an executive assistant to Dief in the old James Coync as head of the Bank of Splendidly illustrated with unique man’s deelining years. He tells some Canada. Bven more fascinating is his photographs. this is the engrossing accomtt OF how he persuaded Pearson - account of fhe establishment of Chief. gushes aboit their “Friendship,” the Nobel Ptize#inn~r - that the but confesse3 to “. . . some sadness, for Liberals should advocate acceptance of the forests of Belize. k adventure his pettiness, egqcentricity, and vindio nuclear arms in the 1963 campaign. and story from start to finish. Jaguar is then negotiate Canada out OF the deal at also a complete source of scientffic frightening, his d&i side drove peo- a later date. Predictah& he does not trou- ble to mention that a rising young Quebec Information. as well as a compas- ple away from him.” O’Sullivan was too young to have known Dief at his best, but ’ academic, writing in Cilc Libra (April, sionate plea for the survival of 1963) called Pearson “the defmcked these shy but magnificent animals. at his w&as the fomiw PM wobbled priest of peace” and damned his into senility. There is a ring of truth to “hypocrisy,” adding: 6 x 9,384 pages, 32 pages Of these raspy stories, hut with friends like lhaw.topointoarinthesimagcattams full colour and black and white O’Sullivan, Dief didn’t need enemies. theautoemcyoFtbcL~Sxxslstructure.and photographs, $29.95 cloth This author also sings the praises of the cowardice OF its members. I bsve RichardM.Nkon,sowecaneasily&mp never seen io sU my &tiiw of his values and lofty morality. politicr 00 degmdbu a spectacle PI tbst Both My Houses is only half about OF alI these Liberals turning their coats public life. O’SuUivan goes on to tell of ialmisonwitiItbekCwhmtbeysaw achwetotskepmva.. . .ThehesdoF his withdrawal fmm politics. his gaJlsnt thetmupeha~shmvntheway,tbemSt Fitzhenry & fght against leukemia, and how he went FoUowed titb the elegaace OF animals on to the higher calling of the mthood. heading For the tmugh. Whiteside Limited Frdm his elevated spiritual position he 195 Allstate Porkway makes politicr seem like a petty and The author OF those ringjag words was Markham. Ontsrio LSR 4T8 squalid game. He may he right. But one P.B. Trudeau. Picke~sgill has a Telephone: (4l6) 477-0030 wonderful memory. but it’s highly s& Toll Free Order Line 1-66~%387-9776 and it do& not to oc& to th& tive. Still, he has made a serious and con-

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If the Liberal party was lausht”a at the Turks and lauatdnr from a minority-govenunent posit@n in had more Whdans and fewer MacLarens, at himself, too. 1963 to a minority-government position it would be boosted. The straight, salty stuff, eb? Glee.. in 1965. Ideas have never been the Witbin the party, Whelan admits. he For sheer rollicking enjoyment Senator’s forte. but mom than any other “was a real pain in the ass,” perplexing Whelan’s only equal on the fall list is person he made pollsters and packaging at bat to the Park Plaza huclcrters, snort- Charles Lynch’s A Funny Way lo Run a of politicians for the maw of the media i”g all the while at “Goldfarb and Gregg Counrry: Purrher Memoirs of a Foliliccrl and that crowd” taking over Canadian Voyeur. Not su much a coherent memoir Att&” has been lavished on l&n-for dec&ns and tryi”g to “run the can- as a series of jokes. anecdotes, and ribald didat& lives by putting them i” “Ice “eat tales - deftitaly not a proper Christmas andhis a&o&y of leadership review. It packages all tied in a buw.” A rare Irish .gifi for Auntie Maude - Lynch’s car- dues help to sell books and, what the hell, memrh. our Gene. His sort is the yeast uucopia just keeps flowing, and bless the old Grit machine ain’t what she used in the heavy dough of our public life. him. There are bri&t and droll sturies of to be. I” fact, despite the myth of Liberal I can’t resist quoting Whelan on Eugene Forsey, Robert Stanfield the un- party duminrmce and invincibility in the Pickersgill, a passage that describes the sung cum&inn, p~~&Iery dinners, and long stretch (fro”l 1935 till 1984, with sort of thing you’d never guess fmm the the old friends such as Matthew Haltou only a six-year pause for Dief, plus the solemnities of The Road Back: and the redoubtable Bruce Phillips. It’s , “Joe Who” blip), it isn’t clear that the I luwd to watch PickersatU in the House. simply grand, and I laughed out loud, Grit hegemony was based on brains OT Somedmes he got Pearson Into trouble often. 0 sense; the Tory iendancy to circle the vm and shoot inwards may have been more importaqt. The Senator may ha& been marely the least unsuccessful of the jokey boys who managed campaigns, for there is little evidence here of political subtlety or intd- Iactual acumen. Davey tells breezy stok and relates diverting-anacdotes, yet he shamelessly states that patmmge has by Akio Morifa “noting to do with the way a modem political party builds a machine.” Gee whiz. How did he eet to the Senate? Out of the ashes of World War II. Akio Motita co-founded the For all of the &.nt hoopla about Sony Corporation. now one of the most powexfil, and most Davey’s reservations concerning the Ted respected multInationals in the world. Baxter of Canadian politics. John Turner, he is surmisinalv mild in his comments This is his story. A story of brllUant marketing decisions, global on his I&d=. I% actudly praises Turner penpecti~es, brash confidetw and far sighted goals. for havi”g impmved recently. Davey has written & en&taining booi, but it-does Frank, incisive, tough minded, and provocative.. .“. . .seldom not reveal secrets, doer not cut dose to less than fascinating.“-Kirkus any bone. and is in fact remarkably bland. In retrospect it was surprising to me that w favourite of this season’s pdilical 6% x 91k, 320 pages with 8 pages of photographs $29.95 memoirs was the unlikely entry of Bugene Whelm. His ghost. Rick Archbold, may have done him proud, as doubtless Rod IUcQueeu did O’Sullivan; by whatever hand, thii is a cmckling good book. If Beaverbooks The Ma” in Ihe Green St&on reflects a 195 Allstate Parkway bit of the rube, still Whelan cmpes Markham, Ontario LSR 4T8 through as a tough, direct, likable, and refreshing sort of guy, totally without Telephone: (41t$477-0030 pretension and proud of the cowshit on his boots. Pickersgill is more informative As Ren6 L&ssque’s memoirs show, his I government failed because it worked so well within the system It opposed By Lp.9. Owen lvIemoi&byRen6~ue.,tmnsIated and London (be prefers the latter), to Trudeau, natumlly, and, rather surpris- from the French by Philip Stratford, scaodbla* Leningrad, Italy, and Bgypt lngly, the Duke of Edinburgh.) McClelland &Stewart, 352pa8es. 324.95 -where a Qu6b&oiic gettiog off a auix After!mciogthehistolyofhisfustyea cloth QSBN 0 7710 52g5 5). ship noticed him and “disdainfully re- in office, he goes right back to his own Camdo, Quebec, and the Uses of mark& ‘Tiens, tieosl PII& got around be&don These chaoters aboot his ore- Notionallsm, by Ramsay Cook, to leaving. did you? Bra& ” po&icalBfe areinm&ywaya the b&t in McClelland&Stew& 224pages. 824.95 The -k of this “soooty dame” the book, though not what most readers cloth (ISBN 0 7710.2261 1). gives him the toe to start his story. and will pick it up for. Hi boyhood io the to start it with the end. He dates the Gasp& in the very anglopbone town of A ~OLLE~T~~N CIP essays by Ramsay begimd~ of the end from the party con- New Carlisle, is descrlled vividly and with Cook, mostly about aspects of nation- vention of June, 1984, where the cxeco- a warm nostalgia. This. we feel, was the aG.5mlotbiscouotry.camepappropriately tive committee incredibly presented, and lmppy time, which lasted only until his in the same season as a book of remb& the delegates pmdictably passed, a resolu- father’s early death. He passea rapidly cemxs by the leader of the most striking tlon containing the sentence “A vote for’ over the subsequent years lo Quebec City nationalist movement of ow time. a Patti Qo&4wis candidate will mean a to go on to his expclieoccs as a WBT car- Don’t expect L&wque.‘s book to be vote for Quebec sovereignty.” Michel respondent io Eompe. and then to his like the regolar memoirs of the ret&d Cl& a lately appointed cabinet minister, catrex in the CBC, including his second polltician, equipped with a.squad of earned immortality by remarking that stint as a war correspondeat, lo the research assistants and a scholarly ghost. he’d never seen a bunch of turkeys so Roman war. (“Night oo Bald Mountain” Published in both French and En&b WI- eager for Christmas; but to everyone’s ls the nttlog title of this chapter.) siom’j~twerayearafterherelinqtihed amazement Lcvesquc didn’t explode in It’s good to have all this. In tbc gla the tattered remnants of his power to rageandwalkout.Nowhemplains(and of his political fame. it’s easy to forget PierreMarc Johnson. it’s obvloosly a it’sperhapstheonenfactinthe book) ttmt Reo4 Lhnsque was fti famous as hasty pmdwtion. For a complete narra- that this “rotten little sentence,” this a broadcast joomalist - the f-t lo rive of his life, his political -, and his “complete aberration,” derived from Canada, certainly, and perhaps in the govemment the best source is still something he himself bad said in March. world. The few times I saw him on televl- Graham F&r’s m. But Lhwque’s when his defeat over the coostitution was sion I thoogbt he compared well with that book by its very existence becomea at still ra&ling. He sets it at the bead of his other celebrated chain-smoker. Bd ooce a necessary part of the whole story; ohapter: Morrow. (By the way. the anti-smoking and a lively obbligato it is. lobby, quick to remiod us that Morrow I’m under a vow that requires me, in died of bmg cancer, cao take no comfort tiewiog a work tmoslated fmm Fmncb fmm Lhresque: in 1985, having been to English, to say sometldng about the forced by his staff to go into hospital for quality of the translation. It’s hard to do a check-up. be got not only a clean bill sothistlme,fortworeasons:Iamreview- of health, but anote appe&d to it - ing from uncorrected galley proofs, and “bmgs like a baby.“) the original French isn’t available to me. Then he says: “who could have allowed The great @if-a of his broad- Some passagea may owe their obscurity such a presomptuolls statement? well, casting career is that his pmgram Point yes, I admit it, those words are mine.” de Mire owned windows on the world for There are two L&esques. we’ve often the eoclo-&d little society of Duplcsris’s been told. Those words in March, 1984, Quebec. nod was a large part of the Lhresqoe exp&IKed two major dew- were spokp by the private one - the reason for the gieat Jdaidwemenf that solitary, suspicious, vindictive L4vesqw folld. Quiti&. too, is the fact that Jacques P&zeao who has no close frleods. The comments Levehque took, and conveyed, a lively in- conference at Banff, and that the fat hemakesonthemnow-andmostof terestloallpartsoftheworld-ercept mioisten held regular ramions. Since this book, luckily - are by the familiar the bit of Cnoada west of the Ottawa Philip Stratford knows pufectly well that pobllc L&wqoe, engaging, homomus, River. That indifference remains lo him, the Bnglish for d&&&m ia “disappoint- and disarmingly frank. (He isn’t very and accounts for a good deal. A journey ment.” for conff!rence is %cture,” and unklod about anyone - except Pierre of dlscovuy across Canada traosfotmed for r&ion is “-2% dpg Aodr4 Lalrendeall’s tbioklog. I wonder thatthesecluious what it might have done to Lhresque, and smoothed out by the time you see the through him to his viewers. printed book. That he was able to do so much L&esque be&s wltb his trip abroad through the CBC, a federal iidtution, ~tyear,afteThe.lmdleftoff~:toParls might have made him a federalist: But it : __. ._ ;_‘,:I;_..i.~__ _i_i_~_i,l .. -,_ .

was precisely the producers’ strike of mold be achieved within ConFederation. give rise to - be embodied in nation- 1959, sod the denseness of the DieFen- and most of it had been. They had made states? If nations are to be defmed by baker government’s response to it, that Qqebecintothesocietyitoughttobe,and language, they can’t be; ILI Cook points I politicized bim. His contemporaries Jean it was still part of Canada. And one of out, “if every linguistic group bemme a Mar&and, G5ard Pellet&, and Trudeau its own was a&Gn prime mimof nation. there would be amwoximately had been politicized as snti-Doplessis PED Canada. 8,000 ;lations.*’ -- - pk. L&esque had taken little interest in Ramsay Cook makes much the same Nations can exist on two levels at least. that subject; it was rage against Ottawa point in the introductory essay to his A nation-state combl hvo or more that drove him into politics. book: nations can itself become a nationality On the night of Nov. 15, 1976, seeing IO Qucbsc . . . the socisl tmnsFonnatic.n without denying the nationalit, of its L&esque’s face 011 my television screeo thst had aroused nationalist Fenrow had componentp: Great Britain is a nation, more clearly than most of the ecstatic run ik cows-s. Tbc Quiet Rsvoh~tios undoubtedly, but so areBn&nd, Waled, crowd in Paul Saw& Arena could see it, largely succ&cd in ik main objective: and Scotland. (P1ea.w don’t bring up I thought that he, almost alone in that themodemizatimoFQue.b&publich Northern Ireland, I can’t cope.) auditorium. real&d that the victory was stitutions. Many OF the individuals who Many other questions besides this-as really a defeat. He doesn’t admit this in Fmmdakd the new valuer and goals OF various as the impact of the European his book, but so it proved. PQ had Quebec society mccaded with their ’ invasionontheAmerind&s,andthelifc If the dulion: in pditicr, IheMs. cduallon. v,o* only 40 per cent of the seats with the bureaaaacy, and even ths economy. and art of William Korelck -are dealt their 40 per cent of the votes they would Prench hsd become the dominant . with in Ramsay Cook’s collection. It’s a have been an articulate and powerful language in virtwlly every arpeet OF valuable book. I wish the publishers had opposition at liberty to preach their doc- Quebec life and French-speaking dated each uisay and stated where it was trine while hammering at aweak gown- Quebecas were M lwger largely coa- fmt published. It would have beeo even meat. Instead, as a provincial gowmnent fmedtothelowra&soFthepmvJnce’s better if Cook could have taken time to vith a majority of seats but no mandate economy. Temporarily at least. na- rework the whole into one integrated for separation, they had to be part of the tioaslism ss * tool for social pmmotion hook. (Ku&k might have had to be system they opposed. cmdd be abandonsd. dropped.) That would have been a dif- It only made matters wnse that in their ‘The difftit and ambiioos relation- ficuIt task. But it’s surely in the general fust term theg were awry good and cff= ship between nationality and the nation- interest that Rsmsay Cook should be kept tive govemmeot, so that wheo the time state - the maio subject of Ren6 L&es-’ hard at work. Our precious national came for the referendum in 1980 it was que’s powical - -makes a recur&9 res~qrccr ought to be espk&d to the full obvious that Trudeau had been right - theme in Cook’s essays. Should all - thooah not to the point of exhaustion, everything Quebec needed to achieve nations - and the national feelings they of course. 0 -

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The season’s glfl books span a ran 8 of sub@& from the science of Iandgsoapes to the artistty of microchips By Johm Oughton omotFTBooi5acluore.giFtthan a human ceil, or a,lady’s undergarments fmt major retrospective OF his work was booB: large., glossy, they are are all detailed here. heid by the Windsor Art Gallery in the designed to impress as much as The do-it-yourself ssc!iou may save you mid-“lop; this book commemorates the enterm%. They’re doomed to be from the sew that hardware clerks next one. There is a sense of over- admired &RX and then left to bulk - for hamlymen who ask Forth&a- shadowing about the book, too: this is large on a shelf. majiggers. One might quibble with a Few definitely an eco~~omy production, with ! The best giFt books are those that, of iexlcographer Jean-Claude Corbeil’s as many monochrome as coiour like the BwIkU’s Fumilicrr Quota- lab& (when was the last time you heard repmductlons, and a paperback binding. tionsmy parents gave me at the end a car tachometer caiied a “revoiutIon Perhaps Canadian artists have to die of high school, have some eudur- couuter”?), but on the whole its orpaniza- before they merit the Fuii coffee-table ing value. I’ve conccntmted in this tlon ls ioglcal, the drawings are clear, and treatment. rev& on books that seem good for the information is useful. Posterity vdU d&de the argument over more than one-time use, or that at least In the hands of an artist Like Harold the lasting value of Town’s art, but add something of educational BI wli as Town, the Visual Dictionwy would pro- Town’s rlchuess of imaginationis as cvi- visual value to the crowded gift-book vide instant coiiage material. Town’s dent here 82 his command of many media marketplace. restless genius has explored many media, (paiutiug. drawing, sculpture, dage, The most originai of this year’s crop but he has a parricular gift for collage, printmaking). He’s also given Canadian is the Stoddart Visual Dictionary @tad- as David Burnett’s Town (McCieiiand & art some of its beat one-liners. He said of dart, 798 pages, $29.95 cloth). If you’re Stewart/Art oailery of ontario, 240 one exhibition jurist: “I thought he was stuck for the name of au object or part pages, $29.95 paper) reveals. dead,butoFcourseIhadoniyhispictured of a system, you can look up a drawing Much of Burnett’s text is concerned to judge by.” of it and fti the names attached. There’s with the critical buffeting Town’s reputa- One of Town’s collages combined useFui material for aspking novelists (the tion,has suffered since its peak in the microchips with mugher, more primitive middle band on a i’lth-ceutury cannon 1964s. when his show at the L&g Gailery Forms. A similar sensibiity lnForms the barrel is the “chase artragai”), practis- was caIied the Stanley Cup playoffs of offieat Pebbles to Computers: The ing journalists who have to cover Camdiana&. Thegenemiwlsdom among Thread (Oxford, 112 pages. $24.95 cloth), technical subjects, illustrators, students, the. art establishment seems to be that perhaps the fmt gift book devoted to reference librarians, and that endangered computation. Cybernetic pioneer Staf- but hardy breed, the general reader. The and devoid of content. ford Beer and photographer Hans Bloluu constituents of a jet plane. a divlti suit, Gaiicry has y$.to hold a Town show. The trace the development of computing devices from early pebble and cl& e, ‘systems through Pascal’s and Babbage’s to modem microwmputers. Beer argues that the structure and phliosophy of computers are mirrored ln naturr, that a “thread” cmmects all con- sciousuess. A red tbxad motif loops through the book, sewing visuais aud tat to this idea. The photography is crisp, and Beer’s thoughts arechaUaging (aithowh at times a bit tinged with ’60s cosmic con- scloumess). The intmductlon is by David Suzuki. Suauki and Biohm are &b co-creators, with writer Marjorie Hanis, of the sib- ling OxFord production Sdacescs pe: The Nature of Canada (unpaginated, $24.95 cloth). Suzuki describes it as a “coi- laboration between two kinds of pueep- tion, that of the scientist and that of the artist: The concept ls intriguing: take impressive landscapes and nature ciose- ups and add text that comments dn them from the vlewpolut of science. This aos%futiiization is rwardlllg for the reader: familiar Canadian sights take Her book is a vivid reminder of those on a new meaning when we understand days. * , wfiy the Rockies have theii shape, or how A very diffemit vision appears in The butterflies migrate. This is a good OJibway Dream (Tundra, 48 pages, example of a gift book that can buttress $29.95 cloth), a memorial to the art pf ri‘I ‘.. the “Oohl” of admiration with the Arthur SbiUing, who, only45, died from “Aha!” of peK.eptic.n. heart tmuble earlier this year. His richly ’ I Sciencesca~ delivers a stun warning huedportvaitsbavemoreineommonwith about the fragility of Canadian namre, the work of npresslc.“ists like BmilNolde -, .:<. vast though its landscape may be. This than with the stylized work of other theme is also central to Fred Bruemma’s native-Canadian painters. The paintings Arctic AabasIs: A CeIebnUon of S”r- in tbis wllection show native pcople in viva1 ~1cClelland &Stewart, 160 pages, head-and_shoulders views @ml back- 329.95 cloth). Bruemmer is our best gmunds of flowing. energetic colours. photographer of nature in the North (a The images are set off by Shilling’s often . ___ story gces that a magazine once called poetic meditations on art and life: “You him “a the off-chance that he had a could rake the coals over my body. Death photograph of a polar bear b&g milked, !vill ““t put this fw out.” Although his I. and he responded, “Colour or black and style sometb”es strays into sentimentality, l.‘.’ _I .! wblte?“) but it’s not just his sense of tbn- there is real power and vision in most 61 -.. _.. - =_ --=- . . . . :T,__, E iag and wmposltion that make this book the work reproduced here. j;;_‘I :y-g-;: a worthy successor to his earlier wllec- FiaaUy. some of tbe more predictab tions. Bruemmer’s love and respect for eatrieq: photo books that celebrate tb% ,/ .,1 the animals infuse every frame, and (eve” scenic joys of Canada without saying : I_. __- _ “___ k though ids photography is much stronger much new. The mw attractive of these than his ivrltlag) this is an eloquent argu- is Tnas-Caaada Cmmtry: A Photo- L ment for treading softly in any future ‘graphic Joomey (Ccdtlns,’ 208 pages, exploitation of Northern resources. He $39.95 c&h), by Brian Mibte, who spent reminds us what incredible adaptations 18 months exploring the Tram-Canada both the animals aad tbe Inuit have made Highway and amassing wlour slides of Chin’s landscape of a sulphur pile, but to stive in the harsh climate. his disc”verlss. The expected sceaics are a “uick uemsal of this book tniaht make For a different vision of the same land, well represented but interest is added by th; “n&y think that Vancouv& has no try Qksdulrtut: Images of Ilmit Life Mibte’r eye for tbe other delights of the ju”kled, derelicts or. (for that matter) (Oxford, “apaginated, 524.95 cloth), by road: old signs, local characters, a mid- native people. Presumably Vanmuver Baker Lake artist Ruth Annaqtusi night tmck-otop. The people he photo- isn’t “their” ctty. Nobody here but us Tulurirk and witer David F. Petly. The graphs have interesting rather than happy, well-fed folks who indulge in the title is a” Inuktitut word meaning “the gIa”lom”s faces. These touches of real- odd bit of eccentridty. sounds of people passing by, perhaps ““t- ity help temper the shots of glmious Not quite .s” grand&e but. just as side your iglu. heard but not see”.” sunsets and tranquil lakes. sunny-natured, Thts Is My Home 7ubuiak’s playful and mlourful pencil Two lass imaginative entries in the (Douglas &McIntyre, 128 pages, 324.95 &wings acccmpany herstori= of the old coff~ble-wcept sweepstalt.~ are spia- cloth) took the “day-in-the-life” days before the Barre” Lands Inult were offs from Expo 86. Vaneonver: A Year appmach, with photosraphers acrosi broken by stanation in the 1950s and had in Motion (Collbn, 208 pages, $49.95 Canada mapping local events on Canada to mwe t” settlements. cloth), by Tom Sutherland and Cindy Day. The results became both an audio- This collection has m”re depth than Bellamy, exposes, in repmductlons so visual display at Expo and a book. many books of Inuit art. s&e it manages large that grain is oftea noticeable, the To be fair; this tOme does show a wider to convey something of the culture tbat work of 50 local photographers who shot variety of &.ople than ths Vancouver pmdticed the kayak and the ulu, “when tbeinvay thro”gh the year leading up to effort. Part of the fas&arion in the children worked very hard to leam things Expo’s opening day. The= are some sma- approach comes from detecting the they needed to know in order to live.” sing pirmres here, especially Albert similarities across the country that help ._.._..I1-1-_-.--_-~-. “_~__..._ ..___ _.._.. .-

support the notjon that we are a nation. his own lofions, strehed out on a disc- But the text, with a few uceeptions longue and dead ss a madccrd, all hell (“Canada is a dumsy country that means - in this case in the form of the local well” - Duncan MacPherson) is sac- siren-loving state troopers backed up by charine. Perhaps love for one’s country the UA and several platoons of inept on Canada Day inevitably comes out bodyguanis,not to mention the pm&lent sounding like puppy love. 0 of the United States -breaks, as they say, loose. The trails along which Vanessa and Lawrence stumble seem promising at fust. Though Maddox is sn interna- tionally renowned fw, photo on the cover of Newsmwk. no mention of Ids death appears in even the local new+ papers. Then tbe parking lot of the neighbouring hotel fills up with By Wayne Grady limousines, BMWs, and other signs of to~1ew.l govemmcnt o!-liid~ trying to be The Tellllg of Lies, by Timothy inconspicuous. Then our intrepid duo Fmdley, penguin, 359 pages, $18.93 cloth diiov& Maddox’s body (again). some (ISBN 0 670 81206 9). photographs taken by Vaaessa at the sceoe of the crime disappear, various ruf- nils IS AN odd mystery. No one in it tians fla&ing plastic laminated ID cards - to know what’s going on, indpw begin to question ASH’s somewhat som- the people who are supposY to know. R’s nambulant staff, a guest is kidnapped, more Like life than a novel, which is in other guests attend a dance, Vsnessa is itself disquieting. The events are told - kidnapped, Maddox’s body is snatched written, actually. in her diary - by again, aad all in all events take on a d&year-old Vane&m van HOrae, an decidedly ominous rumble. American and one of the priaclpds in the When the rumble ceases, we are not, case, who does not really wanl to know aswemightexpecttobesttheendofa what has happened. She is aided in her mystery. enlightened. For Pindley is not reluctant blvestiSatiops by her nephew, concerned here so much with solutions to Lawrence Pawley, a doctor, who thinks mysteries as he is with studyins the effects he knowwhat is happenbxa but doesn’t. of Inptuia upon tboss who are experien- And the entire book is interwoven with dug them, in this case the guests at ASH. tmilsthattUmout to leaddot to nowhere, “Calder’s death,” writes Vanessa, “has exactly, but to a series of somewheres that become a wire around tbis beacb.” and are as baf* and incondusive as The Tdling of Lies is, in effect, a prison by Clive Roots Vanusa seems to have anticipated they novel. a study of the psychology of the would be. suspects - those woadary and often illustrated by Celia G&in Folindly, the novel is a clsssic myslery forgotten victims of crime. They are not in the English country-manor tradition. quite sure .that a crime has been mm- A small group of regular guests at the mltted, they are told nothing. they an h compdssionate and thoughtful Aurora Sands Hotel (known affeo under no overt tbreiit; and yet they know look at eighty species of Canadian tlonatdy as ASH) on the mast of Maine that something has happened, that some- wildlife currently in danger of have gathered for tbek usual summer of one among them is guilty of something. extinction. lying about on the beach and destroying Viewing tbe novel as a study of prison each others’ reputabions with gossip and mentality explains several otherwise Clive Roots, director of Winnipegs snubs. Vanessa’s family has p&o&d inucplic.abIe elements. One of them is Asslnlboine Park Zoo combines a ASHforge.nuatlom.asbavetboseofher Vaasssa’s childhood. As a young woman . raconte&s skill with scientific llfelong~friends Lily Porter and Meg of 15. she had s@nt part of the war in thct Celia Godkin’s delicate and ’ Riches. Meg’s husband Michael has been a Japanese detention camp ia Bandung. lively animal porttaitares are sme contImed to a wheelchair since his stay in in Indonesia, where ha father, an a Montreal hospital a few years before. engineer with a large oil fm, was killed to bemme collector’s treasures. and Lily has become the mmpanicm of by order of the prispn commander. Calder Maddox, another regular guest. Cddnd Norimitsu. Vanessa dedicates her 7x IO. 192 pages, illustiated. who is the octogenarian head of a tijor diary to Norbnitsu, the man “who, with index, $19.95 cl&h pbarmaceutlcal company aad the iaveo- one hand killed my father and with the tar of, among other diabolical tbiags, a otller made of my fatba’s grave a gsrden. potent tranqui8izer call&d Maddoxin: ss Death before life.” Gsrden imagety crops Fitzheury & Vancrsa writes in her dll (actwlly, it up throughout tke novel: vancssa’s pro- is a noctwry, since she does most of her fession is that of a garden designer, and Whiteside Limited notetaking at night), Maddox has given her frieod’s name is Lily and her mother’s 193 Allstate Psrkwsy the world “Maddoaix to put them to name was Rose Adella. Vanessa’s hIsrkham. Ontario L3R 4TB sleep sod Maddonite to wake them up. rembdxeaccs occupy whole cbspters and r&phone: (416) 477-0030 And Maddoxin to calm them ia be- are also vague e.xplorations of the roll Free Order Line l-80&887-9776 tween.” When Caldcr Maddox is psychology of prisonen, though they are discovered on the beach, coated in one of .aot very successfuuy integrated into the

-.__---- -L- _ ,._ . -._ fabric of Pindley’s complex plot. high culture (which meant Buropean. Another oddity is the iceberg that ap- culture) in the United States beginning in pearssudd&offthaaastofMab~and the late 19th century. The story opens stays there. about a mile offshore from with Dvorak’s invitation in 1891 to serve ASH, throaghout ths entire novel. No as direaor of the National Conservatory one seams to pay much attention to it - of Music. The composer’s Bohemia, his sightseers are kept away by the police New York, and his sojourn in the Czech roadblocks - but there it stays, like a immigrant village of Spillville, Iowa, PIEOPLIE rather heavy-banded symbol of tha death mmprise a rotating stags on which the that visits Cakia Maddox. Vanessa novelist deploys a dozen major who changed Canada’s regards it as “a gift: it gives us all characters. view the North? something legitimate to focus on.” Bat of it hovers just outside the novel’s fringe. w&g froi the mid49th century oE never imp@ng on events, floating just Dvorak’s youth in Bohemia to the U.S. beyond the Tantalus grasp of meaning. in 1931, the year his widow died. It is The Telling c#Liav h, then, an odd fashionable to cut linear narrative into mystery. The temptation is to wadit its swprisin8 pieces and rearran& their inconclusiveness and oddity to its bdng sequence; imitating memory, the tech- a grab-bag of discardbd Ftiayana oyer nique can give wonderful resonance to vddch a tea-msy of detective fiction has fiction. Yet here the continual temporal been superimposed. But it is more than shifts feel more liks the work of a c~arss that: in its very inconclusiveness and Cuisinart than the delicate. play of oddity is an ideal simalacrum of real life, memory. The novd has a centre - in which threads are taken up and then Dvorak’s life and work - bat no central let fall, trails are cold long before thay me point of viaw. It is told &rough ths voice4 found, and bodies cams and go with a and memories of many characters. edllar: Shirley MilliSaa kind of whimsicality that endsars them to Folkwing than aJl and making smse of SaR cover $13.95. ISBN 0419315-15-1 us as old friends. This is not the deepest the shredded tbne sequence can be a Hmaaver 519.95. ISBN 0419315-19.4 of Fdey’s novds;-it is certainly his bumpy ride. gentkst. 0 Dvorak was fti in love with Josetina We FRIDAV’S OTHER WE Cermakova. one of his music students, In a wry and mllicking memoire mmpnsed who chose instead to marry Count of short slories. a gilled jmmalist explorer Kamlitz Spumed, the amposer was then the essence of Nonh and Nonhemers. Native people today. the far-off war years. Shrewd sister. Thae~entangiemsnts are northern hemes and scmmdreb m-e drawn k Lost in powarfullv depicted from the noint of a light. spare style that woka ,ke exact &of&h w&an. Another .&neat of moment. Here arc Ike pople and the the novel that comes brilliantly alive is the nllirudes Hal make hismry. Aulhor John story of Fianta Vale&, a Bohemian pea- David Hamilan’s stories are iesamd on t3y George Galf sant timvented? -it doun’t matter) who CBC Radio acmss Canada. cmssid the Atlantic with his family SoRcow $10.95. lSBN O-919315-144 Dcorsk in Love, by Josef Skvorecky, around 1850, and made bis way ta Spill- translated from the Czech by Paul ville. Skvorecky conveys a gritty under- PBEBELS, RASCALS 8i Wilson, Lestat & Orpen Dennys. 320 standing of the 19th-cenhwy immigrant ROVWL?V pagas, 322.95 doth (ISBN 0 88619 059 2). expsrisnce tbmugh this tale. and makes The North is mnslimly changing. Fmm the palpable ths rough-and-ready fre.efor+ll days when “The Bay” ruled unchallenged. THES~GHTS AND sounds that inspited the that 8rceted nawcomua off the boats. 10 the widespwad polidcal awatzness of the music of Antonin Dvorak are lovingly Less compd6ng are the mon010gue.s of sixlies and sevemies. LACO Hunt .mw and randered in this historical novel, subtitled people who rwnemba Dvorak in his New recorded his impressions. In this noholds- “a Light-hearted dream.” How do the York period. Much b made of the origins barred autobiography this long-lime random notes of life modulate into art? of the New World Symphony, and of nonhemer reveals the lives and Limes of mmmws the book’s sabtext. The same Dvorak’s fasdnation with and validation those who lived and served in lhe North. qaestion occasionaUy honks loudly in the of black music. Skvcuecky quotea a pres- and MY who just visiled. teat as well. So much good writing laces dent passage: “I am satisfied that the Dwmk in Love. and I have such entbu- future of music in tbis country must be Hprdmwer 118.95. LSBN 0-919315-08-9 siasm for Skvorecky’s other fiction that founded on what are called Negro I wish his ambitious new work could be melodies.” Interestbtg, but many of these At your local bookseller or order direct praised without reservation. A small masicological musings seamed in+ imm the publisher. readership, those with a strong interest in mbmbletome.Theraistoonmchstmight Outcmp, The Noahern Publishers Dvorak and in American musicology, telling about Dvorak’s musical gerdw, his Box 1350, Yellowknife, NWT XlA 2N9 may become infatuated with this story, personality, and his accomplishments. In Dislribuled by Raincoast but I suspect most PKIPIC will find it the end, although every other character heavy g&g. - - inthisnovelispointbxgaf~eratthe Dvorak was the first Eum~ean corn- composer, he remains curiously dusive poser of stature to live in A&ca and and unformed. absorb American music. Much of the I began reading Dvorak in Low as I novel’s energy arises out of the OId put down The S&?&y Net by H&rich World/New World tension that Ml, anotba heavily populati novel told characterized the expsnsivs pwait of from multiple point8 of view. B68 sw cccds by moving his story inexorably for- self for these that she commits suicide. beauty to effect moral change, yet the ward, and by giving the reader a stake iu His son Ian and daughter-in-law book paradoxically works to effect sufh knowing how each character perccivcs the Stephanie, whose little &rl has been kikd change - at the very least by malting ifs actlo”. I” Biill’s novel about terrorism. byadrunkdrivu, attempttoanagth*ire idealists such. attractive characters and EWythiUgis-ftedKlWaytbingClse, themselvec against thinking about life by their stories such iutriguine texts. 0 so you crave the multiple Jiwrpoluts. By coustant travel. comparison, several of s-s voices The turn-of-the-century American art- seem gratuitous and cluttering. B6ll also collector, Kenniston Thorson, who may had the good sense to include a list of have bee” the father of Bill Seymour’s characters for the reader’s convenlmce. British wife Gwen, for- four decades Dvorak in Low needs a similar mad map. travels restlessly through Europe in and The novel’s prose is &use and rich, and out of the Lives of Hemi Toulouse graced in translation by Paul W&on’s Lautrec, Jane Avril, Alphonse Daudet, fine ear for language. To use a wonder- Anatole Prance, Emlle Zala, Gabriel ful word from the text, this book works Faur4. Arthur Balfour, Frank Harris. By Roy MacLaran spasmelodically. Parts of it umy daunt (or Harry Kessler, and Alban Berg, slmul- bore) eve” those familiar with the com- taneously enchanted by their talent and The Imperial Caundb”: Vineeut poser’s achlevcments. But at its best the wisdom and chagrined by this wisdom’s Massey i” Offlce, by Claude Bllsell, novel conveys a deeply felt sense of the impotence. Gwen’s mother, the naive University of Tomnto Press. 361 pages, loves and sormws that moved the people flapper Coustancc., seeks slnglehandedly 524.95 cloth (ISBN 0 8024l5656 3). in this man’s life. 0 dlvislo”s of the wtli century by &latln8 noz MANY wio rejoiced in Claude the “holy prostitutes” of the corn god Bissell’s first volume of his biography of and attempting to make humankind “all Vincent Massey till welcome his second oue together.” at least as warmly. The Imperial Cana- Uniting the individual stories of these dian is a notable acbiivuneut. Bissell’s assorted idealists are various powerful prose is again couslstently lucid and symbols of 20th~century waste - the elegant. But it is more than that; it also chlkl randomly killed by the drunk driver, retlecta a so&J pemptlon that is both the “deformed Limbs, the bloated bellies, rare and acute. Sy Frank Davey the swollen joints” of the poor who sur- The Young Vincent Massey took us round Africa” international hotels, through Massey’s earlier life as diplomat Century, by Bay Smith, Stoddart, 160 Hebuich Hhnmler, the addictions to and political aspirant, cubninatlng in his pages,51295paper(IsBN0~3750162). opiates, alcohol, and sex that abound in presidency of the National Liberal Keuniston Thorson’s Europe. Association. King% s”cccssf”l elecxio” M SLY FASUNATMO prose texts, Bay Cenlury is an mgagine book to read, campaign in 1935 was in large part de- Smith attempts to chart the descent of our full of surprising narrative tums, witty signed by Massey. The new prime century from the sophistication aud and lutelligeut characters, and an im- minister promptly appointed the party unhappy intelligence offie-swe Palis pressive command of 20th~century president to the coveted post ofCanadian to tbe gloomy political and envlmnmental history. The contrast between ik own bllh commissioner in London, just the pmspects of OUT own time. Smith’s pub- literary beauties and ik pessimistic job for such a pronounced Anglophile - lisher cautiously bills Gxfury as a implications echoes the inability of ik and a good place to be rid of an affluent “collection of tictlo”.” but the six texts characters to combine beauty and value. colleague who frequently initated him. fmly interlock and in their focus on the BiU Seymour crux create a garden in B.C. Blssell writu of King’s conviction that ethical failure of the cumuy, on its but not qdequate farmlands in Africa; Massey was ewythlng autlthetlc to his %aste of humankind” in “a cacophony Thorson’s Europe can give the world own values: had not Massey “inherited of strident conteutlon.” cau be read as ToulouseLautrec but not avoid the wealth, a” effete aesthetlclsm, a burning constitutiug s novel lu which the antury slaughters of Verdun; Ian Seymour can zeal for self-advan+xut, and a servile is the unfortunate main chamcter. be “eutrauced by the Dolomites chaug- attitude toward the English upper The actual leadiug chamcters of ten- inp colour through the day” yet perceive classc.s?” All that’ and much else con- Wry are idealists who seek a world iu in life no enduring satisfaction; Gwen’s trlbuted to King’s mutinuing dislike of wblch sufferlug is r&wed and health and mother can attempt to embrace total Massey. For the observant Bissell. beauty NIX available to everyone. Sur- Massey’s undeniable foibles added to the rounded by greed, cyuiclsm. famine, and “out of existence b&use history i-s chiaroscum. They do not detract from the violence, however. they fti their ideal- notbin~ but traumas and repressions. . . very real regard in which his biographer ism painful and iu some cases in conflict [by] authority” yet be blind to her own holds bbu. a regard particularly evident with their own dairea and obsessions. enslavement by drugs, alcohol and con+ in this second volume. Bill Sewnour. a retlred Canadian ptive promiscuity. The Imperial Canadian begins with the United %lok dfficial,.is so haunted by In Cenfwy one is thus repeatedly arrival of the 48-year-old Massey in pre- the suffering of the Afncau poor. which tided of the limited power of art and WBT London, suitably kltted with court bis lifetbue of work for iutematlonal dress to play an active role in the British society he so -d. Bissell provides a he c&or enjoy the small British full and Lively account of Massey’s pre- bia garden he has purchased for his final war and especially of his wartime years years. His daughter, Jane, “‘a child of the in Britain, delineating en route the high sixties” who “%.ared . . . about the abso- coumdssioner’s mle iu the creation of the lutenecessliyofutaldngtbeworldabetta British Commonwealth Air Training place,” has dreams about belug seduced Plan, his enhanced rcsponsibiities as in- by Iiehuicb Hiuunler and so blames ha- terlocutor between Ottawa and London,

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PO Box 340 Moonbeam . Ontario FW I VO 0. Box 2188, St. John’s, Newfoundland. AIC 61 and the more persollal contribution of the ing Cauada of his lifetime, but it was for :. Massey family to Canada’s war effort. his biographer to give us, in his two splm- out a per&d. ‘. Ably supported by Georgea Venier and did volumes, a dear and convincing pit- Rven stvlisticall~. Lavton’s lanauaae is 8. Lester Pearson in the early years of .his ture of the unique contribution that as fresh h a f&i instone. Pkding cherished London appointment. Massey Massey made to his homeland (despite his Love and Beauty in capital lelters went out with the 19th cantmy. Beauty doesn’t accomplished much, but had hoped to do Ufekmg infatuation with Britain). No one ;. yet more. He had hoped that IG”g would wuldhave done it better than Bissdl. Cl have a chance with the author’s mustam recall hlm to Ottawa to fdl * major intrusions. We also have to survive thmugh’his rhetorical obsession with the stale bagel: “0.” “0 not ranembering her derision :. “o way tinder&l BiieU in writing what of me, I plunge lie a corkscrew into her is more than a highly competent and softnus. . . . Girl. 0 girl, let our washed always witty bioglnphy of a leadiug cana- Ibn~makeaperverseStarofDavid.. . . die”. In a very real sense, both volumes the field Othefetiddreamsofmen!...OIam are also social histories of Ca”ada for the uotataUwhatmensaylam....Did years they e”onhpa$r, social histories that By Ray Filip you, 0 lovely lady, really unhook the portray a country in the final stag= of interposing bra. . . . Because, 0 yes, you chrysalis as it evolved fmm colony to Dsncz with Desk, by lrviw Layton, squeezedback.. . .0 tie folly a poet vi& nation. McClelland &Stewart, I62 pages. $12.95 say or do/ wheu a woman’s beauty ravels B&sell’s biography has the rare distfne paper (ISBN 0 7710 4987 2). his senses./ 0 the squalid comedy of his The. Beekeeper’s Daughter, by Bruce blinding love.” and amusing account, repiete with iuu- Hunter, Thistledown Press, 78 paps, 0, shut up. minating anecdotes, of the official and $20.00 doth (ISBN 0 920633 14 5) snd The Beekeeper’s Dauglrtcr, by Bruce private lives of the Masseys in Londd” $8.95 paper (ISBN 0 920633 15 3). Hunter. is a collection of “work” poems end Ottawa, and 011 quite a differe”t lewl Small Horses and Intimate Beasts, by that work. The writi”8 ir deceptively plain a perceptive co”une”i 0” the changing Mickel Gameau, translated from the nature of Ca”ada. Massey contributed French by Robert McGee, Vehicule Pm, how hardgrawdigging and oth-er laho& substa”tially to this dm”ge,~pree”d”elttly 93 pages, $8.95 pa;er (ISBN 0 919890 68 is without unearthing dead ideologies. i”hirpostwarmksascheimmnofthe 7). He does not deal with death in safe Royal Commission on National Develop- abstractions. You smell the stench of a” ment in the Arts. Letters, aud sciences taVtNO LA_ is a sendnal fuure in exhumed body, coveralls outside the Cauadiau poetry. He happened to he in lunch room, 2.4-D and yellow hags of general. Biidl Is especially go&l on the the tight place at the right time with the Weed and Feed, and understaud the work of the royal oxmnission, which has right Line. Only he could get away with wisdom behind “gravediggers do “ot left a” indelible mark o” Canada. a” undesirable book like LIa”cs wifh touch the roses.” As a former president of the U”iver- Desire, the latest repackaging of love Hunter “comer down on the side of the sity of Toronto, Biidl is also well placed porms.from his bedroom assembly line. union,” but does not succum,b to the to describe Massey’s Dostwar wars as Wasp sensibilities stopped being occupational hazard of playingthe hem. chs”cellor of the lhiiv;rsity of ;roronto offended by Layton more than 20 years Slrapped to a safety belt with other chaiu- and to note vmlv the wlitical machhm- a80. AllerA RedGurpelfortheSun, his sawers, “Always we roughhouse,/ tlow”- tions evidently iu.&pamhle front academic craftsmanship we”t into decline, and he playing the soft touch on the lever/ where life. It remains. however, Massey’s cou- began mnuing on nputi+on, pumpi megaoms of hydraulic cmt kill.” tibution in the arts and iu the office of out quickie poems like nocturnal He is a prairie boy and shows us “ew head of state that provide RisseU with the emissions. ways of seeing those comma” siphtsz hook on which to hang his sometimes “Everything in this country wind- explicit, somethnea implicit. but always The .siucere love poem are the ones toppled,/ backed agai”st the life./ The that come from his heart. not his crotch. cable hOldin the bar” against it,/ the Canada. The backdrops & m&h as the “Bluebeny Picking.” “Hills and Hills,” house leaning and uncle himself.” “Divorce.” aqd.“Vikki” are fedingfld. Relationships are also hard work. Ths Impihal Cm&n. But nothing compares, let’s say. with the Hunter rezng”izes the masculine end BiiseU coutenlplates h%assey as a exotic eroticism of Michael Ondaatje’s feminine in us all. and the gmder-free character from a Henry James “owl, a “Theci”“a”lo”Fwler,“orthese”~t masks under which good and evil hide: wedi” insiit into both Massey a”d.the SaMaMy of Rarle Bimey’s m”la”ci”g of “That serene head staring towards me./ Canada he represented. As do so many Wai-la”. my eyes prisms of water/ in which each of the ambiious characters in James’s The catak18ues, “The Day Aviva Came ringlet of hair/ becomes a strand i” a wig tiction, Massey “oscillated bet&” to Paris,” and “With the Money I ofs”akas,/each!viththeheadofama”./ Europe and America, between the im- Spend,” or the a”aphora in “Farewll”, Nothiug evil there,/ si”wIy all the possi- _ &e no longer riy& just ridiculously bilities of belief.” become independent and assert&.” It is loqg-&ded; though “Sedu~tio” of and His poor choice of structure, a” item- the measure of B&sell’s achiwemeut that by a Civilized Frrnehwoman” is a clever ized list of mmplaiuts in “Towards a he is always able to keep these two poles Definition of Pornography,” constricts dearlydeFmedatthesthnetoexplore a potentially powerful poem. But on the and elucidate the whole range of atti- whole, The Beekeeper’s Daughter tudes, emothms. and allegiances .that harvests the best of Hunter’s recent work cmnposed the spectrum betwee” them. in generous portions, lucid and lovely. Messey was &se@ a” author of some Small Horses & Intimale Be&s, by ability, offering his readers his own par- Michel Gameau, is a giddy yapper of a ticularu”dentandingofthera#Ilyevolv- book. Having bee” imprisoned during the 1970 War Meawes Act, Gameall is pain- The relation between author, and that of close to Xl,000 French ahd British fully familiar with the ins and outs of pediar invisible creatue, the reader, can soldiers who had died in earlier attempts language. be summed up with this stanza: “to be seemedwamingenoughtattheG~ans The Chinese say translation is the other a zebra/ us two/ a doublezebra’ a gallop- cmdd hold the ridge q long as they chase. side of the tapestry. Interhorseface? ing twosome/ sud lightning.” For months, through the coldest winter Robert McGee, a fme poet in his own This bilingual book is a small horsey ‘Buropelmd~wnindecades.c!zadiaIls right, rides out the prosodic feet with with room for readers across the cowl- hmneUedanddrsggedsu@iesandmkled contrapuntal aplomb. w. 0 enemy trenches. Generals and staff On a bedsbeet or on writing paper, the officers. who bad been salesmen, editors, French know bow to have fun. Game&s and professors only a couple of years bestian of L’Animalhumain leaus witb ‘earlier, plotted and planned. Finally, in unbridied speech. The clip of -“et Its *e wake of the most effective artillery che~~lerch~lLFeh’/ewr”dops in- barrage the war had so far seen, 49 baG to “and the hair hair hairs.” Nouns and talions of Canadian infantry walked for- proper names become verbs: ‘5 wta you ward thraugb snow and mud to do the i marilyn you/ i say to you lou i say to impossible deed. you laura. . . I am still picking that first Vii is the battle Canadians associate flower/ and by giving it to you hand it with the First World War, as Australians to eve.” remember Gallipoli or Bmodeeinde, or The musicality of Gameau’s puns re- Vimy, by Pierre Berton, McClelland & the Americans Be&au Wood. It was not quira a conductor’s baton: “‘en milk Stewart, 336 pages, $24.95 cloth (ISBN th&mplete,dmmaticvictorytbeBri~ . neufvenfs lrenl.2 huit.” Words are still 0 7710 1339 6). would achieve at Iv&sines a f&v months magical,lifeisthedmg,bighonimagina- later. or that Canadians and A- tion: the pure stuff. twirtoNs. cLAIhc?D the French hlstorlen would deliver at Amiens in August, 1918; As fly6 as Chagall’s cows, Gameau Ernest Raw, are not created by speak- it WBS a triumph Canadians needed to whoops and warbles in “to sing at the top ingtbesamelanguageclrevenbyoccupy- share with no one. Never before bad alI of one’s lungs while driving”: “the in9 the same territory. They are made by four divisions of the Canadians corps fir&lies show off their big blue lips/ wade who have done ti things advanced in Line on i single objective. In the battalions were French and En&h, bii b&e bulls are covered up with mist/ greet things to&the.r in the fit&. Poles, Germans, Ukrainians, Japanese the bull frogs are horsing around with the Bven at the time, the Canadians who Canadians, native Canadians .and bass/ . . . the little birds haul eternity captured Viiy Ridge in 1917 knew that replaentatiwsofevayotbere&dcfmg~ away.” they had done a mat thing. The bodies ment of the transcmttinental Dominion. -.__--. ._:

There ere Few peinlcss or perfect tic- Even before historians suggested thet accounts of the battle, notably by the in- tories. OF the 38,000 men who edwnced April 9, 1917, w&s the moment when temationalIy known but locally ignored 1 on Vii, close to 10,000 would Fell dead Canada was tmnsformed From colony to Canadian historian, Donald Goodspeed. I or wounded. Only three of the Four di$- nation, the Cenadiens at Vbny Felt it in The enthusiasm of Baton end his rc.scar- . sionsmachedthdrobjectivcscn~hetcold their bones. It we8 a Feeling even the ! ch.wsreve&enembemw~shortageoF Rester Monday; not until the Fourth day Flugel, unbneglnative govcxnment OF knowledge about the Cmediaa Expedl- coukl the 4th D&ion’s Btigaa General W~LyonMeckenzieIGngingwasforecd tionary Force end the Pirst World War. Edward Hilliem report From the fmel to respect when,.a decade later, it Errors speckle the pages. It would not German stronghold, “I em King of the authorized the memorial that now towers have detracted Fmm the author’s lively Pimple.” over the Douai plain. pmsetorccnðateoea8lelybrigade Worse; Vimy we.5 not a greet thing As the faithful chmnkler of our in 1917 wes very different From en infen- Canadians had done together. In Mont- national epics; Pierre Beaon hea tumcd try brigede, or that the 75th Battalion real that sprblg, recruItbIg pertie.5 For the to Vimv as netumllv es he rediscovered (now the Toronto Scottish) had nothing Cansdii Expeditionary Force were the W&of 1812, the-building of the CPR, muchtodowlththethrlvingcitythetwes jeer& in most of Canada, they were end the settlement OF the Canadian \&St. named Mlssisseuge only in 1987. Lloyd merely ignored. Replecing the caseebies He has brought to the task his usual George Favoercd the Aostmllen, John of Vii Forced the eonsaiption crisis of narrative skill, en enthusiasm For odd Momash, over Canada’s Arthur Cunie a~ 1917. The scar tissue on the wounds to chemcters end blzatx enesdotcs end suf- a colonial s&essor to the generals he our national unity is still tender 70 years ficlent righteous indignation at war and despised. The British begen the war with later. its horrors to rcasswe readers who Fear two machIne gun6 per battalion, not per At the time, Lhe conflict et hoo@wes the Rembo disease. division._ , only hinted at to the victors of Vimv. Berton’s raeaxhcrs hew essembled Kequent Kpettuon dots not glmanbz mu& as soldiers themselves gave the-ii scores. of books. end. . pamphlets. . by proud truth. A generation ago, Charles stecey Families only rare glimpses OF the horrors pamcwmus, am my nave munercd a X. demolished the beloved Cenedieo folk- of their experiences in war. For them, Few dozen nonagenarian suwlvors end myth that Sam Hughq thumped Lord Vimy had en unqucstIoti national grilled them on their memorlcs. The IGtchFer’s desk For the seke of prcserv- signxcance. It coinclw, not only with tiult, proclaims Professor William In8 a united Canadian contingent. Berton the new professlonelism of the corps end INbourn From the book’s beck cover, is &es this and many other dubious legends en unfamiliar weelth of shells, gene, and “one of the tit moving accounts of war a second life. other m$ttary materiel but also with the and battle ever written.” The unhappy Fact is that I%zy is laden dondmmce of the Canedlm-born in whet Frankly, in the name of selui or friend- wlthermrsandin eccmacles, none of had been largely a contingent of Britiph ship, Rilbdum overreaches hias& There u&h an needed for a lively narrative. d& ere. more eccurate and interesting Who ares? Berton, and the Fliends .: .i !

whose editorial puffs decorate his back selfless bond of friendship with another coYer - Richard Rohmer, Peter woman who swvlved the fue. In ‘After .- Newman, June Callwood -may dismiss the Fall,” a story with special resoaance such criticisms as the jealousy of academic nit-pickers. The marketplace grasp&g midst of family demands, an may give them wnfiince. In %zy, artist, hellbent on capturing the cliangeful . . Pierre Berton has given book-buyers what colorations of a dying amaryllis before most of them wantz a good read aad a her children burst in from school, steps help !tith the Christmas shopping List. dramatically out of ha place in time. And There is no evidence that Berton’s “The Inside Story” shows a welb readers want accuracy as much as they educated, well-meaning English teacher reUsh his colourtbl sermons on humaa subtly reformed by the claws she gives follyaadnationalachievement.l%eywUl in the other world of prison Ufe. learn much to excite and inspire them. In Throughout the book Hospital’s prose turn, the dollars he earns do as much as is flueat aad apt. Only iofrexmently does the rest of Ontario’s taxpayers pot her desire for descriptive precision tempt together to keepMcClellami&Stewartin her into metaphoric overkill. And pacing, business. so crucial to the art of the short story, is And someday a better book wii be one of her special gifts. She understands witten. q and uses well the seed for pause, a breathing-space often lost in the short story’s demand for campacted a&Ion. Though none of these stories extends beyoad 15 pages, there are some-such as “Happy Dlwali,” “TheOw~Baader,” and most delightfully. “Waiting” (seed story for her fmt novel, 2% 1~ swing) - that unfold with a leisure usually found ooly in longer works of fction. By Cathleen Hosklns Others, such as “After the Fall,” “The Dark Wood,” sod “Some Have Called Dislocstiom?. by Janette Turner Thee Mighty and Dr+dful,” pulse witb Hospital, MKleUand & Stewart. 179 the pared-to-thwssence speed of a pages, 812.95 paps(ISBNO77104219 1). thoroughbred. The lmchpin to this collection is that JANET”?TURNERHOSPTS fUSt COk@ final dislocation we call death. Diseaw. tion of short storla shows how deeply injury, old age,. lost career, lost lovers. rooted one must be to speak truly of the childrengrowo distant -all these fgure loss of place. Hospital's own journey has ss p&s marls just this side of the big taken her from Australia to the United tie. And death itself, whether devasta- Voyages of the MS Lindblad States, England, India, and, siace 1971, tingly sudden as in “Some Have Called Canada, aad each of thrre countries has Thee” or drawn out in fits and starts ~(i Explorer tbrougb the last provided material for her writing. But the in “The Dark Wood,” is clearly seea by wild places on earth seose of place in these 14 rich aad varied Hospital ar a fame that rcshapg those left behind in the land of the living. The by Jim Snyder & wd the coU&ion is m&cd by the hum& lightersideofdeathishemtooin”Ashes connectedness she sees possible despite to Ashes,” a tender satire oa different Keith ShackIeton her characters’ wanderings. Sometimes notions of dying in the East and West, theplaceleftbehindhacharacter’snative spoiled only by the indusion of a news- 6 qectacular testament to the rich land, but sometbw, and often more paper clipping that gives away the story. vividly, Hospital writes of lossw in Named one of Canada’s 10 best ftioa variety and character of the wild psychic space. writers under 45 in a receot promotion tlora and fauna found in some of In “Golden Girl,‘: for instaace. a campaign, Hospital has c&x&d prlae the world’s most inaccessible breathtakingly beauufol aad brilliant nominations and awards’ for her three landscapes. university studeat is transfigured by a novels, and a story not included in this ~esome tire. The country she must collection was recently awarded the Illustrated with 150 full Colour relinqoish is that of her own self-image. $10,000 Ladies Home Journal short story photographs and 50 otiginal water Through ao excrucladng physical and prize. What’s wonderful about D&cn- colours / 5% x 12.208 pages, psychological journey, she forges a more lions however. is an abiding sense that $55.00 doth fameandfommehavelmthingtodowitb the writing of these stories. Witb ao unerri~earandeyeaudageaerous hart, Hospital write4 stories that, thoagh Fitzhem-y &’ starring from polnts of loss, add richly to Whiteside Limited the world at lame. Hem she accomolishep 195 Allstate Parkway one of llterahues essmtialtasksz td t&h Markham, Ontario L3R 4T6 maderswithavisiioflifeenhanced,+nd Telephone: (416) 477-0030 send us forth determined, even in tiny Toll Frcs Order Line l-600-367-9776 ways. to live an ampler life. 0 entertainmeat or illumination - es*- duce piety and civiUzed ways). Such ially when that imtitutlon has often been characters dominate without distorting. Justice Denied: The Law &us m&d by feuds that you’d expect it to for mch colonization in Acadia was Donald Marshall. Lw Michael Harris, want swept under the rug. It’s to the more dependent on the enthusiasm of Macmillan, 405 .p&es, $24.95 do& credit of the Royal Ontario Museum, abd various individuals than on any careful QSBN 0 7715 9690 1). to the enormous credit of Lovat Dickson, court strategy. that this isn’t that sort of book at all. . Jones is sensitive to the cultures she mm mttwwmva investigation of the Dickson is polite about the new, highly describes. Scenes from Fmncb court, Donald Marshall case pmviaes a chilling stmctured design of the exhibits - which port, and tavern are deftly sketched. She account of jurisprudmce gone awry. I detest myself - but does allow himself irparticularly good on the differences in With a joumdistic Q” for detail, Michael rel@ious outlook between fiery mis- Harris constructs a volumiaous indict- sionaries and the devout but sophisticated ment of a tragic miscarriage of justice. ladies who financed th’em. Iukewarm At fvst glance. the facts of the case noblemen who suspected the Jesuits were appear simple. Sandy S&e, a black ~loUin~ to take over the world, and the youth, is stabbed to death in a Sidney, &mmoa folk who scarcely knew the N.S., park. His companion, Donald Mar- rudiments of Christianity. Though shall, a 17-year-old Micmac Indian. is perhaps not delving deeply enough into arrested. tried, and convicted of murder. Indian culture, she keeps a respeclfal After 11 years in prison, continuaUy pm- distance, and takes Bumpeao c~nstruc- testing his innoeeace, Marshall is tinally tions of Indian behaviour with a grain of acquitted and receives $270,000 ia com- to indicate that it partly derives from a salt. The book is accurate, lmagbmtive. pensation. But behveea Mar&all’s arrest 1967 conference at which Harley Parker and humaae. - JAN NOEL and eventual acquittal lies a legal and Marshall McLuhan “bad spoken a Lsbyrintb of perjured testimony, pmvin- good deal of nonsense.” cial pditics. and plain bad luck - The complicated history is told with a 1 The Nlelrhaat-Millers of,tbe Hamber factors, meticulously dwmided, that clarity I’d have thought impossible, and VaUey. by Sidney Thomson Pi&r. NC together contributed to Marshall’s the great faures in it - C.T. Currelly. Pm, 188 pages, $16.95 dotb (ISBN 0 Kafkaesque ordeal. Bishop White, Ted Heinricb, Peter 928053 78 5). Jusriae Denied is mostsuccessful when Swann - are given full credit for their analysing the conflicting testimony achievements without any concealment of preseated at the trial; it is less than sw their faults. - I.M. OWEN publi~pirited amateur historian who has cessful in its incomplete characterization based this work on a smdy he commis- of Donald Marshall, who remains soft- doned in 1970 from archivist Norab spoken and elusive throughout the story. Gentlemen sad Jesalts, by Rizabeth storey. Clearly part of Fisher’s purpose One aever experiences that magical Jones. Uaiversity of Toronto Press, 293 in writing is the greater glory of his literary sensation of.havi”g “kaowa” the pagw, $24.95 cloth (lSBN 0 8020 2594 3). aacestor, Thomas Fisher, who in 1822 protagonist; hence, in hticeDenied, an took over the IGag’s Mill, near today’s essential mcnsure of rawort__ with the ELIZABETH JONES intends this study of Old Mill subway station in Toronto. But reader is lost. early Acadia to be “oomdar historv. his family pride is forgivable., for be has Harris does effectivelv demons&e. . ba.& on car&d res&cc . . . for t& donea creditable job, pmduciag a very however, that two systuni of law exist in non-s”eciaUst reader.” She accom”lisbes readable local history that pmvides a Canada: one for the native community, her g&. Gentlemen and Jesuits p&ides satisfying balance of tigow with brevity. another for the white. The net result of a light but reliable companion to Marcel Flour and lumber milling represented this inequity is injustice., aa abstraction Tmdd’s authoritative but gloomy studies an important industrial advaace for the made crushingly concrete through the of Acadia. pioneer economy-what would today be author’s invastigation. After reading this Jones avoids the confusion that oRen book one is forced to reflect, with iaftite plagues histories of the region. doomed ing as it did out of the horror, on one inevitable question: how by its rich iisheries and strategic impor- and woodcutting activities. Fisher coven many times has the Marshall scenario tance to frequent conquest aad recoa- the period from 1792 -when Lord Sim- been duplicated in other courtrooms7 toe assumed the Govemmeat of Upper - TW cHAMnEaLAw &g on a single &cade. i604 to l&14, and Canada aad lobbied vigomus!y for active ‘on the fur-trading settlemeat at Port Crown assistance to would-be millers - Royal on the’ Bay of Pundy. to the 1860s. by which time over-nxtting Convlaeing chnacters carry the tale. A on the upper Humber bad lowered water leading colonizer, the Slew de Pout&- levels so drastically that the river had The bfuseum Makers: The Story of the court, is credibly portrayed as a down-at- become industrially useless. Royal Ontario Mupeum. by Lovat the-h&Is noble&& see&g to restore his Fisher’s style briags the people and the Dickson, Royal Ontario Museum, illw family’s forhme and honour by securing times to life, unusual in an economic trated, 256 pages. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0 the King’s domain in Acadia. Memorable history. Government involvemeat in the 88854 326 3). too is the scribbling lawyer Marc Lescar- “pioneuing”ofUppaCaaada-inma- bot. who oroduced North America’s first trast to the wild aad woolly U.S. pattern A HISTDW OP a public imtitution, com- &&tic production. Le Tb&tre de Nep - is shown to have been a red conditio” missioned aad published by that institu- tune, replete with sea gods and Indians ofmakiagaUvioghereimmediatelyafter tion, exciter no very lively hopes of either (who improbably beg the Freach to intro- the Americaa Revolution. Yet, mmx- pectedly, the outright lawlessness of early merely a manifestation OF a troubled Fescr;;;h beyond the moment they Canadian capitalism @isher speaks of mind desperately seeking order through “a” undeclared war between lumbermen poetic expression. Sollpsistic verse is Campbell’s strength+? in;;:; and settlers”) merges to provide a defmitelv not a new aenre. though Jones . beran% and in hex deterrmna hwna”izlna underskie to one’s concept of brings Some variety to it in this-folume., conclusious about the human condition the young nation's standard business which includes Iive photbgraphs of the From even its humbleat manifestations. . practice. - Jaw twENER author and hvo autobiographical preface4 She has a refreshing respect for the ordi- (one from an earlier chapbook). nary, in one poem questioning Several poem titles reflect the tone of thll boolt: “Benzedrine.” “Pointed a Gun at My Head, ” ‘LDetoxication ” and The Cnrpmter of Dreams, by W.D. “After 46 Days on the Psycho &d.” The auswer to that is no. But too often Valgardson, Skaldds Press, 70 pages, Ctipbell’s zest For life is communicated $12.00 paper OSBN 0 9692455 0 5). are humourlQs and batl& be&& his through what she says rather than how lauguoge rarely circumvents the literal she says it. The reader thus has to settle W.D. “AU~ARDSON is best know” For his and banal, as in the HenUngwayesque For observing the poet’s seuse OF short ii&n, though he is also the author “Skaks”: discovery, instead of psr$lpatinp in it. of a successful “owl, a previous cc&* - BARBARA - tiou of poetry. and award-winning Iwasonmyway drama. It&ad&s OF venue, his language is Forthright but powerFul, his world one I” Tra”slt, by Michael Harris, V&hicuIe of rugged individualism. Press, 109 pages. S9.95 paper (ISBN 0 The Carpenter of Drecrmpis consistent 919890 69 5). with these hallmarks of Valgardson’s sd work. But this volume of poetry also . & rIghI somehow. MICHAEL HARIUS’S new collection of stauds as a complete expresslo” OF the In Jones’s attempts at satire, as in the poetry is composed of three sections. The author’s aesthetic credo, because it is “Jack and Jill” poems. there is a” Flust, “Turning Out the Light,” is a long, entirely his creation. “This is a vanity obviousness in both the subject of his poiguant elegy about the last days of the book. I wmteit,editedit, dcsigncdit, and satire and the manner iu which he heats poet’s ca”cec4rlcke” brother. The poenl I hired the printer and bookbinder to pro_ it (“And Jack and Jill lived happily ever is often clbdcal and matter-of-fact in its duce it,” Valgardson announces in his ah/within the capitalist system”) that objectivity: ‘I. . . the syrin~‘s dim,/ preface. suc&cUy illustrates this book’s major savage jab, to push morphine/to the style is clearly his paranlount co”-. flaws: unsubtle language, cliches, and Fringes of the pain. . . .” Some stanzas _ In the title poem (also the finest of the thxd rhetoric posing as social criticism. lapse into wordiness, but they are re muon) valgarason admires the almost The title of this book, therefore. is a deemed by other lines that communicate iuonistic attention to craft expnssed misnomer: it takes some courage to call raw anoiion: “When I see his Fear/the by a carpenter who refuses to skbup on such pseudo-verse poetry. measure of my love/is such that I materials or cut comers because of haste. - FRANK MANl.EY could/not harm. but kill.” The collection itself has a sturdiness of The second section, “Deep in Their line, a” unhurried and meticulous work- Room,” is perhaps the weakest. It con- manship, and the bnagery is measured sists of 22 lyrical pieces that celebrate and true. The poans are also defiantly Campbell, Thistlsdow” Press, .a-pagcs, love, aspects of nature, and the mundane . old-Fashioned in their Fommlism (many I $8.95 paper,(lSBN 0 920633 09 9). pleasures of domesticity. It’s not that use rhyme). these them& are sentimental or unsuit- But what really dominates The I SOMBHOW IMAGINE Anne Campbell as able, but Harris deals with them iu stilted. Gmpanter of Dremis Is the spirit of au the sort of writer who wnies a notebook met&al diction. striving to sound overly u”compr@sing individualist bent p” with her on shopping expeditions, or poetical. “In the Greenhouse” is Uie most doing things his way. Most poems are keeps it tucked on a kitchen shdf’withm successful of the lot. brief and personal - musings on the easv reach. in case some small domestic The book’s Utle section is a” impres- natural landscape as well as the inner, incident should excite poetic sparks. sionistic verse travelogue of Greece and emolional one. Valgardson uses hiS.cfm- Campbell% is acar& observant eye. She Mexico. There are two dozen poems here, siderable craft to tit the world to his own draws i”s&aiion Fmm the commonplace: and most OF them read Uke a tourist’s sensibilities, rather than employing his the pain of encounterlug a Former lover itinerary of still lifes; landscapes, and sensibilities to interpret the world. For the fmt tbne aFter the breakup of the grinning tableaux; in other words, they -aAaBARAcAaEY relationship, the simple joy of playing lack a certain aubna or genius loci. truaut From a conference. There ls value Postcards would have sufticed. After in poetry that can llluminaa dally life; Lawrence Dun4 one would think that The Brave Never Write Poetry, by travel poetry was pass& unless it took us Jones, coach House Press, 96, pages, than contempt. to truly remote places of aboriginal 38.50 paper (ISBN 0 88910 320 s). But Focusing on the humdrum is risky customs and cuRurea, whae we could at too, because it may lead to ho-hum least learn something about mtbro- THE. JONES’S FIRST major collection of poetry. I” Death Is (111 Anxious Mother, pology. we have already bee” to Greece poetry, is prinlarlly concerued with two Campbell’s plain, unpreteutlous style and and Mexico with “umerous authors. subjects: himself (as a young urban penchant For life’s minutiae oFteu make What about Tbnbuktu? Failure) and the writing of poetry. I” the her poetry seem pedestrian. Most poems All in all, In Zhmsit is a tenuous latter case, Jo”& indulgence in writing in this collection are brief, bulk amdnd offering. It contains many winding paths, about writing does not extend to theory, a siwle impression or experience. They but they lead to the same house i” the BP in post-modernism (which he satbizes seem spontaneous and inunediate. like Forest. A deeper aud Orphic route would in a poem of the same name), but is jottings in a journal. But they often fall be more visionary. -LEN GASPARMI ._._ _~I .._. _ -.__. I-L_--_- - _~~.~_ _-.__ _._~~~~._ - ._

The Space P Name Makes, by tions with only a modicum of adjectival played among hookers, tricks, and pimps. Rosemary Sullivan. Black Moss Press, 56 embellishment: “Beyond the erctic limit Another chapter describes the geography pages. S9.95 pabet (lSBN 0 g7437 147 4). leeis the hear&/now the clews and cage of the district, complete with e cataloguc teke flight/but the heart is fire, is fue. in of street names, stop signs, and traffic I WASONCE told that the primary rule for this December.” It is a style thet feahres lights. We learn where the experienced revising e poem is to be rutblus i that sudden juxtapositions, colloquial intm- hookers stroll, where the youngest girls v:haever seems to stand out as e stluudllg sions and i&rating similes: ere found, end the nmnca and locations turn of phrase is probably a wrong turn, Ou;of.quickdwdsun’ of the bars, nightclubs, pinball~arcadcs, and should be excised. Generally, neo. a blackbird.rly, and doughnut shops frequented by phyte poets are more susceptible to the hookers and pimps. pitfalls of self-indulgence then to the Street talk (“tmnsies,” “stroll,” ‘jeck rigours of self-discipline. But Rosemary up ” s~tricks,” “fu”) is fascinating, and Sullivan demonstretes ample restraint in the’ dialogue recounted seems believable. her fust coRection of poetry, The Space But the narrative tone of the book is ~rNameMakes. Theresultis avolumeof uneven end irritating -varying from the lean end vimrow work, with the cello- herd-boiled (“I don’t want to say she wes dumb, but she wouldn’t have given Bin- quial directness of a documentary fti. Bii, of every species from vireo to Sullivan bils the wisdom to use osprey, provide Lochheed with subject, stein much of * ruli for his money”) to metaphors sparingly, instead relyins on and at times symbol and metaphor. for psychoanalytical interpretations (“Some the naked power of images themselves. In where she felt empty, but she didn’t know whet he dog best: trendate the sublime how to express this empdncss without lws theopeniogpoem,forimtence,“Icutmy or base activity of the animate world into face/from all the family photos” inci- of ego”). credible lenguege. As well, the inanimate The book largely avoids romanticizing sively captures a child’s struggle to world - &ul for Lochhead this usually eccept/deny her identity (and ultimetely, meens the Bast Coast - is painted in street life, but it is neither compelling nor responsibility). emotionally imolting. Thus it misses the rough strokes: “Now the marsh is ice/in auth&‘s goal of inducing compassion for Prom her own family circle to the a breaking. hardening hand-hold”; v.dd at large, the poet is wncemed with street kids end the lives they lead. “BverywhaC this land/suggests begin- - BARBARA hfa&w how social processa defiie (and confb@ niogs:/tberude mck still dripping.;’ Such us. One sequence of poems examinea the aE3paKeve.r~ technique&oworks well explicit violence of a destructive relation- whenthepoetaa~t~humanportmitwe ship. Others focus on the subtler but -es in “Uncle Amos” and “Lade” - _ equally brutalizing effect of aliamtion but scans ill-metched to capture the Hospltak Life sod Death io e Major end urban loneliness. fainter shadings of tbe human soul: Medical Centre,, by Martin O’MaRey, Sullivan’s mc.wge is that we must sometbiog Lachhcad rarely attempts. MeanSIan, 239 pages, S24.g. cloth posit&& transform the ways in which The more experimental pieces-diary (ISBN 0 7715 98% 3). our lives are organ&d (wle point of the entries, found poems, lists and prose story is to chenge it”). But this activism poems - are somewhat weaker then the A Howrru is schizophrenic: on the one is sometimes-undermined by SuUiven’s tmditional verses: they lack the resilient hand, it is-a place of riveting drama; on own style. She succumbs to a self- form that elsewhere in the book effeo tbe other, it is a shrewd big business imposed confinement: by exerting too tively shapes f.ochhead’s lyrical voice. whose commodity is lives. Using 2’12 much control. she establishes en - FRANK MANLEY years of exhaustive pmbing at Tomnto emotional distance that keeps the reader General Hospital, Martin O’Malley at arm’s length. documents this dichotomy with a sen- Ndeless, The Qace a iVamf Makes sibiity bordering on the manipulative and &. e promising debut, thoughtfully a focus es sharp as the microscope used c&ted. Sullivan is a poet who beam The Stmlb Inner-City Suhcdltnres, by in micmvescular surgery, where “a nerve watching, particularly if she loosens up John Davidson as told to Leird Stevens, looks as big as a garden hose.” a bit. -&4RBARAcARBY NC Press, 165 pages. $9.95 paper (ISBN Reading Hospilcrr. one becomes a 0 920053 65 3). voyeur. O’Malley offers no escape from a gaping abdominal cavity, the jagged liger in the Skull, by DougIns Loch. ~IwogoFTomnto the Good takes e tear on a drunk’s wrist, the cancerous head. Piddlehead Poetry Books/Goose beating in this eccount of the hookers, lobe of a lung wriggling in s basin. What Lane Editions, 130 pages, 312.95 cloth tricks, pimps, and speakeesics that make savea his relentlessly graphic prose from (ISBN 0 86492 072 5). up pert of the city’s night life. John bciog sensational is his compassion. Even Davidson’s personal anecdotes, fmm his when dealing with such medical dilemmes THE PUBLISHINO of a poet’s selected three years as a cab-driver in the es the AIDS controversy and the jug&g poems pmvida a moment of literary tenderloin district, are interspersed with act involved in organ retrieval and grace; he is forgiven temporary lepscs. bits of informathm on Canadian laws end exchange, he so intimetely portrays the f&d experiments. harvesting fruit from social attitudes concerning ~titution, the wrong tree. Douglas Lochhead’s the efforts of the police to hamper street “new end selected poems: spanning 26 prostitution, and descriptions of the years and culled from 13 previous businas, from street hookers to call girls. volumes,. prewts e heterogeoeous selec- At times. the book is en almoat dry tion that is both graceful and edven- account of the job of prostitution. The NIUUS. The temper of this book is verieiy. second chapter describer how the “&.” Whether using free verse, couplets of &k the streets, the prices for different regular iambs or prose, Lo&bead writes sex acts, how the tricks make their a clipped lyricism; his syntex is always approach, end the unwrillen but strictly harnessed into noun-verb-noun construe- enforced Nlca of the “game” that is

. . _. _ I people involved that their experiences become our own. Hospitatreads like B short-story callee tion. Although each chapter has its own mesmeridng flow, the book as a whole feels somewhat disjointed. Occasionally, O’MaRey repeats explanations from previous sections. However, the blur of technical detail is quickly relieved by the immediacy of a crisis. He does for by Annette Mitchell Toronto General Hospital what one of his brilliant teaching surgeons does to a body: he cuts it open, splays it apart, and then 100 country style craft pmjects for the home: with precision and cowem &awns us ulwulinglyclcwtotberaw, vitalbmards. . children’s clothes - Fashions - toys - ornaments. table settings - ava Mcaaula - bedspreads - pillows - tug+and much, much more... (including a glossary of st[tches and techniques) m the crwtors @he Coutzay Diag qfatt Edwardian Lady Target Nation: Canada and lhe Wcstem hteuigence Network, by James Littleron. Lester & orpen Denny% 228 8% x 11,160 pa es, 200 full colour photographs, pages, $22.95 cloth (ISBN 0 88619 118 1). 200 full wlour flustrations, plus glossary $39.95 cloth WnaN x-m DAY’S headlbta say “CIA- style spy network urged for Canada.” a book examining Canada’s mle in the w- called %estem intelligence network” seems timely and necessary. However, Beaverbooks . Target Nation suffers from one major 195 Allstate Parkway flaw: most of its material summarize3 Mzukham, &tario L3R 4TS subjects already covered in other works. Telephone: (416) 477-6690 For those unfamiliar wvith the notion that the RCMP or Canadian Security Intel& gence Service (CSIS) might infringe on iadhidual rights, though, this is a good introductory primer. The book gives us yet another reminder of how deeply entrenched the U.S. military is in Canada, from Labrador to Nanoose Bay, and points out that in these mutual defenn systems the Americans command and Canadians act as deputies. Such information is useful; bit unless An inventiveexplorationof the human brain by one new bight comes with it, it simply goes over old ground. of Canada’s most exciting experimental writers. Littleton’s style is somewhat erratic as $9.95 paper wll. Some passages read as if taken directly from the script of CRC-Radio’s Dow Domenski Ideas which formed the basis of the book. These are intended for listeners, WWMMERrnRQKE not readers, and the approach seems al The fourth collection b the Halifax poet, work that times condescending. It is this level of is intense, surreal, unY study - one would hope we’re not so orgettable. naive that we don’t know the meaning of $8.95 paper Cold War - that m&&the book so frustrating. There is plenty of reason to be fright- ened by the activities of our intelligence services, yet the book, for all its doom. wmslet@d by SMla Flschmafl does not come to a strong conclusion. We Winner of the Governor-General’s Award, critically see too much of the past-which in itself is not improper - at the expense of more acclaimed, an entertaining story of agentle man in contemporary analysis. an absurd society. Near the beginniag, Littleton writes $9.95 paper thaf radio programs do not readily translate into books. Perhaps Target Ns ;houId have been leIt in its -. -EJKrlnEW~ read and a believable character. abmlhervmman.. . .b@teriesdmftdeat Benay, unlike the typicsl American with tbe wide rsnp of mi&tlM~ thmmsthatarethcstwkintradeofmid- dick, remains if not innocent, antar- dlc of the mad novels that are called alshad. In this case.. he even sends back ‘%eri0us.” nley have tms in common a bribe that would have kept him in with many of the meat cksica. PIavers ciaare1tm for some time. He so&tlmes~wonders if gr.tbg his me Frank Bushmill, the podiatrist whose : really ureferable to office is across the hall, is always reeom- dammed in doors is mending the books of Plana O’Brien to By Michael Rkha&on mmhtg a ladles’ ready-t&&r like his Benny, who can’t make head or tail of : father. But as long as he’s being paid as them.Idon’tknmvifBagelfeelsthesame A City Called July, by Howard Engel, an investigator, he’s pnpand “to go on Penguin, 284 pages, $18.95 cloth (ISBN getting my nose slammed. At Iti it’s way about O’Brien. but c&air& James 0 670 81268 4). better than getting shot at in a bii city. Joyce’s words in praise of O’Brien apply Here at least you sometimes get asked in eqadlytobim.Joycesaid:‘sArealwiter, ‘- vmn A City Culled Ju(Y, the fifth in for a cup of tea or coffee.” with the true comic spirit.” q Howard Engel’s Benny Cooperman In a hard-boiled story, the detective series, Canada’s premier private eye has might observe of a woman that she was truly arrived. As Benny himsdf.says, the kind that would make a bip kick “I’m just a beat-up divorce peeper. in a stained-glass wiadow. Benny is Except for a few odd cases.” It’s these subtler: “She was wearing flamboyant odd csses that v/e shoakl give thanks for, moumiag: black satin, black crepe, black though in terms of paying his rent at the nylons. I wondered if she’d had her Audi lessthanchyhotd whereherEsides(the painted for the occasion.” He’s a sea- sheets are clean and the mck music stops tlmentalist, and I don’t mean in the way at midnight). Benny would do better with that, say, Rbbert B. Parker’s Speaser By Phil Surguy standard peeper employment. sheds a tear when he blows someone In this case, Benny’s client is.Gran- away. Bqmy’s mind is fidl of toml%toncs; A Single Death, by Eric Wright, tham’s Jewish commmdty, the B’nai he finds himsdf thinking of a wasp he Collins. 163 pages, $19.95 cloth QSBN 0 Shdom Congregation. Rabbi Meltzer and killed, just because it annoyed him, but 00 223053). the congregation’s president approach his sentiment is genuine. mtvxnmm is a tme-cmpse man. That’s bimtOtr~OUaL~Gdl&ala~~, Bmmy is, of course, Jawlsh, and good-time Charlie and Vi wheel in th6 although there have been other Jewish a compliment, meaning he’s a mystery local chapter of B’nai Brith. Gdler has private @a (notably Harry Kemelman’s writerwhoseec andsitualionsare I disappeared along with S2-million of the Rabbi David Small, whose tmiaiag in the so good he doesn’t need to dutter his commtmity’s money. Although Benny hair-splitting Talmudic logic of piI@ books with bodies to maintain the would prefer to leave the job to the boys made him an obvious investigator), reader’s interest. Benny unlike them is neither orthodox The term is from Bvelyn Waugh’s at Niia Regional, the rabbi wants a excellent novdla, Work Suspended, The hush-hush private investigatioq. not nor kosher. Ills mother’s cooking has led wishiag his ddrauded e0agqatu.n to him to enjoy a cone of chips, doused narrator, a mystery novelist, explaiw appear stupid. &my is soon up to his English-style with malt vinegar and raw . . . . my book, Murdwa~Mounlrichmrl caue,wstithinhvmq~words neck in shady business, gove.mment con- salt, fmm the truck on the wraer of of its end. la tkrec week I should pack struction contracts. philanderings, AndrewaadQueen,aadbacoaatMartha it up for the t+t; perhap rooner. for gangsters, and verbal fencing with Tracy’s roomiag house. Lie his father, 1 had nearly parsed that heavy middle Gdler’s family and business associates. he is not known for joining the congxga- pxkd where le%s cnudcntiour vnitas in- There’s more than tme %magfd death” tlon of B’nai Sholem (at the comer of troduce duk second corpse. I was thirty- (as U.S. lawyers politely euphemize Church and Calvin), bat when he does, four yean of sse at the time, and a murder). sevualpickledlwiagstotbmw totalkwithhisdieats,anhoarhlthesfwf serious writa. I had dways been a 0110 the reader off the scent, and what makes him feel the need to tam over a corpse man. Northrop Prye has described as “a new leaf and quit the chip track - but The empse In A Single Death - sequence of minor adventures leading up it’s gas rather than God that influence Wright’s fourth nova about Inspector to a major or climactic adventure.” this decision. Charlle Salter of the Metropolitan There’s a Yiddish song I suspect Toronto Police - is the late Nancy Benny’s mother would know entitled years one mi&t begin to wonder what the Cowdl, who was found strangled, “shein vi di le-wh-JR,” populaized as author was actudly up to; one receives possibly raped, three months before the the “Miami Bmch Rumba”; lad&’ none recipes, lists of books the detective has on story starts. Among the suspects are the of that city’s vice or style occurs in A City his bedside table (Benny has a Ruth men she met through a newspaper com- c&d July. It is absurd to place Bagd’s RendelI and, awrding to Mom, hm been panions ad. But she also availed herself work in the tradition of the “hard- attempting to read C?ime and Pm&h of singles bars; and her in-laws and boiled” school. Just as the American mcnf for 10 years). and even moralistic estranged husband may know more than detective story was an inversion of the lectmiag about cldld-rearing and sw they are saying about her and themurder. formal Bnglish deteaive story, so Bagel cesbul rdationsldps. EQd show no need Then again. it may have been a random has created an iaverslon of the American to lumber Benny with such baggage. As thing, the work of a weirdo Nancy saw pmduct. not just a variation. He spoofs he observed in his assay, “Mystery for the fast time only moments before he the tradition and the vniting of Daddell writlag Considered As One of the Pine killed her. T&e investigation is going Hammett sad Raymond Chandler, but Arts” (Descunf, Winter, 1985-86): mnvlwe. the Cooperman books never become One thins about mysteries. they aren’t As usual, the novel is z much about parody. They are fun, yes, but it’s about Mythine. They don’t tdl you how CharlicSalteraritisabouttheki8iagand Benny’s humanity and the skilfal telling to deal with middle-sse cd& or whnt to the witnuisea and suspects he eacomlters. of the story that make for such a good do when your husband besins seeing Charlie is a working-class boy, guarded,

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Wright’s ‘&at acbiewmeat. though, “e IW surprired to find btmretf letting here and in the three previous novel& is the everyday strains of his largely happy i,er this but he needed her confidence if ZO-year marriage. he v/as to get beyond the routine web his conception and realization of Charlie He is pushed into the Nancy Cowell tions. For her paa. she was sttshtly COP salter. Many other mystery writers have case when Gerry, his fast wife. whom he fusedbythesuddenintimacyoihirrrply. told us a lot about their detective&’ per- hasn’t seen for 25 years, suddenly shows and then she mntted, and Salter eXdrEd sonal lives, often vuy successfuUy. But up in his office. Their brief marriage it had been P pod move. Wrlgbt has done better than any of them. ended in the early l%Os, after she whole ‘Tbal’S not tile offtctal au9wcl/’ be For as Charlie confmnts and contem- heatedly took to drugs and the rest of conduded. plates his wives, his kids, his rela!ivcs. his “I guess not. but it helps to knpw how wueagues, witnesses, suspects, CdmInals. that decade’s expuience, which he saw as tie world worlu, doesn’t it? Your firrt a threat to Ids-and beliefs. Now she wife must be quite * WOmM.” stomkecpcrs, and himself, we get 80 is a well-connected social activist, S&rsaidmt,,@.Hehadlaldhlmav unbroken spectrum, not a sties of threatening to raise hell if, ar she suspects, open and it was ha move. isolated observations and incidents. the police don’t care what happened to The term “hard-boiled” cornea to Nancy Cowll and are doing nothing wright has everything WorkbIg in this mind. Wbichis not to say that Charlie at about it. hook, which mat&a the standard he set all resemhlm those fatuous I-wall-&be Charlie h ordered to take over the care. with his previous novel. the superb, one- gutter-and-geeit’s-neat-kicking-guy& He is to fmd the killer, if he can, but ids corpse Death in the Old Country. nurwff hard-boiled dicks of the ’30s and primary assigmnent is to keep Gerry The narrative and d,ialogue me excep- ’40s. Rather, the hardness is in the steely quiet. That is diftieult enough. But, being tionally tight and often very funny. The humanity of Cbadie’s &ion. The CharlIe Charlie, he is also forced to sort out what me&a&s of the mystery are well main- Salter novels are essentially the continu- he thinks about women (women in .tained throughout. 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Davies is brief and amusing, Neumann, 158 pages, DM32.00 papa, if not especially original,. on the GSBN 3 88419 242 3). dIstInguls@lg cbamcterIstlcs of Cawdlan By Alberta Nlanguel Varieties of Exile: The Canadian Uteratum, and editor - Zacharasiewicz F,xperieace, by HaUvard Dahlie, U&et- writes intdllgently about Hodglns. AU in The Play of the Ryed, by Elias Canettl, ’ sky of Britlsb Columbia Prrss, 216 pages, all, this coUectlon ls a fme conttibutlon translated from tbe German by Ralph 022.50 cloth (ISBN 0 7748 0252 9). to the growing body of work about our Manheim. Farrar Straus & Giroux writers as seen fmm abmad. (Cqllins). &9 pages, $27.95 cloth (ISBN FRO~I SE- RESORTS published in the Hdlvard Dahlie’s Varieds ofEdks& 0 374 23434 3). front pages of Books in Canada over the out to explore the notion of exile as a last few years, readers will already be theme in Canadian ftion, and Canadian THHIS IS LBSS a book la its own right than aware of the burgeoning European inter- fiction writers themselves as exiles. both a chapter in the as yet emlIess auto- est in Canadian literature. Gaining lmmiarants and exoatriates. From the biography of an acknowIedged master of Ground, edited by Robert Kmetsch and l&h-century to the 20th. Canadian modem prose lictlon: BUas Canetti. It is Reingard Nischlk and published last year literature ha5 tienefted fmm an influx of the third chapter, in fact, written after by N&Vest Press, indud.% a 17-page exilu and emigrds, some of whom (such The Tongue Sef Free and The Torch in bibliography of books and artldes wItten as Frances Rose Bmoke and Wyndham Ihe Ear. There is abnost no point in by European critics on Canadian literary Lewis) stayed only a short time&t wrote reading The Play of the Eyes on its own. subjects. Univenities in England, France. about their .Canadian experimce.s, and It begins in medim res, as if the author Germany, and Italy have courses on sotie of whom became permanent assumes that we, the readers, have just CanLit and associations for Canadlanlsts, residents (Susanma Moodie and Joseph l-mished the l&t pw of volume two and and t&c has been an ever-lncreasinp flow Skvorec~, for example). From Roughing are ready to pick up at the point where of Canadian writers to those countries to It in the Bwh to Se~Condemned(wlkh, Canztti has just completea his novel read; to lecture, and to promote their es Dablie points out, hear many striking Au@-dqf4. “Kunf Cntches Pire, es the hooks. similarities, unlikely as it may seem at novel was then titled, had left me Encounters and Efp1orrrlion.v conk fast), and from 2% History of Emily ravaged” is the first line. Hen the reader prlses a group of papers on Canadian Monlwue to The Engines of Human must d&de whether there is any purpose literature given in Tulbingerkogel. Souls, Canadian fiction deals over and In foIlowing Canetti’s confessions. Austria, in the late spring of 1984. The over again with a number of exilerelated In aU probabUIty, tbe “Dear Reader” collectlou indudes two stories (by Jack motifs the contrast in values between of7lzePlqyqf~helQanvbomC!aaenihas Hodgins and Graeme Gibson), two Europe and North America, the New in mind is one familiar with Canetti’s life poems (by Doug Barbour and Stephen World as a paradise, tbe IoneUness of the (at least his Austrian childhood and early Swbie). lectures by Margaret Atwood, exile, and so on. youth) and wtaioly his works. Canetti Fred Cogswell, Rudy Wlebe, and Robert- Dablie exolores the work of some 20 assumes that his reader already knows son Davies, and four papers on Canadian writers from this perspective. among about his early peregrinations. his Jewish fition by German and Austrian critics, others Grove, Ethel Wilson, Sara Jean- upbrlnglng. the wsons for choosing the as well as a summary of the inevitable nette Duncan, John Glassw, Mavis German language out of several at his discussion on “The. Canadianmess of GaUant, and Norman Levine, la addition disposal, his fmt brushes with literature. Canadian Literature?’ Two of these items to the four already mentioned. It is also He fiuther aswow that the reader has - a paper on Hodglns by Waldemar refrcsh@g to see tbematlc Qitlcism take read Auto-da-fd in its entirety. . ZacharasiewIcz and a speech by Atwood on certain writers who are rarely de& Auto-do-f& his undisputed master- entitled “After~Svrviwl” - were not with lFrederlck Niven and Laura’Salver- piece, is a mammoth acblevemeat, and given at the conference but are induded son In this case), while retaining some therefore not edy perused. his Mur- for tbelr approprlataas to the subject at aesthetIc judgement and not treating fmt- ~’ doch, the English novelist who sharer hand. rate and four&rate merely as fodder for with Canettl a relentless intensity of With the exception of Helmuth a thesis. ’ thought, called Auto-da-f6 “one of the Bonhcim’s paper on Frederick PbUIp DahlieJs a good reader and a readable few great novels of our century;’ but I Grove and Sindair Ross, which ls writ& of prose. He ls primarily concuned adorned with diiams and seems to me with exile as a theme and a force., and of iCafka, Joyce, and Proust, the a+. hopelessly plodding and academic, all of rive “great” is simply Murdoch’s way of thepiecesinEncounterscmdDrplorcrlions how form and Ian& have been af- salnaming her master. “Gve~helmkg” _- _--I_ ------.-_-_-~.~

is, I bdieve, a more accurate description of Auto-da-fd, tbe hero Kant dies by fire “‘entirely of Cauetti’s earnest plodding tbrougb the when he and his beloved books go up in soul of a sdf-ceutred sinologist. the hero flames. Canetti the character (says worthmreading . . . of Aufo-d~fd, who souwsvhat uncomfor- Canetti the author) feds a conflicting a very funny book” tably becomes a symbol for the decline tangle of anotions. On the oue hand, be of the i”teuect”al west. Few readers will is relieved at Kant’s de+lh, which brings -Winnipeg Free Press doubt Canetti’s i”telli&snce or ipnore his him, as a novelist, “a sense of libera- passionate questio&, but f&&U find tion”; on the other. be feels that in burn- tbetaskofreadiagA”t~~f~fromwver ing Kant’s library he has sacrificed nof to cover eutirdy pleasurable. A touch of only Kant’s books “but also those of the lightness, a touch of humour is lad&g; whole world, for the sinologist’s library andyetthisreadingisdmostcoutp”lsory ineluded ewytbii that was of impor- for anyone intendblg to take on Canet- tance to the world.” ti’s autobiography. Because it is this I cannot help feeling that Canetti the Canettl, author of Auto-cfo.fd, who character is being presumptuous. What- stands stalwart at the heart of The P/w ever Kant’s library contained it cannot of fhe Eves. have contained “ewytbing that was of This fact brings us to a” intererting importance to the world.” It could not, M6IOYGElER paradox. The subject of Cauetti’s auto- for one thing, have contained the works bipgmphy is another. an inexperienced of Blias cauelti. An author may feel Masquerading as a house-husband’s cookbook is Manly Geller’s W%ar I Cauetti; not today’s recognized author, toward his created character all the love Give My Wi& for Supper When She. winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for, and admiration that k devoted uncle feds Comes Home From the Ollce. Literature, but a struggling young man for’his favourite nephew (as Canetti the who in the distant past wrote a book so author obviously feds for Can&i the Really a warm and funny story, the fine artist/coo!&uthor lets us in on ambitious that it required over 40 years character) but to display this affection iu life in a role-reversed family. to achiwc its solemn celebrity. Canetti the such large letters somehow shows a lack autobiographer can (and does) comment of taste. It reads, in fact, like a case of 40+ carmom and much pithy freely o” the young author, judging him literary nepotism. commentary. with all the wisdom and slow pace of This said. The Plqy of the Eyes (as is Spiral bound, Illus. 09.9s hindsight; Canetti the autobiographed the case in the two previous volumes) is fmm lives only in a tictitious first-person full of happy observations and surprising PEGUIS PUBLISHERS LIMITED singular, uncertah~ and impatient. portraits. Here is the beautiful Alma 462 Hsrgrave Street. Once, reviewing a book by Tom Wolfe. mhler, the coulposer’s widow aud Winnipeg. Man R3A 0x5 I came to the couchxion that all fiction mistresr of Liszt, presiding over her salon ’ is autobiogrsphicd. I want to raveme that in Walkytian spleudour, being fashion- all-too-obvious statement and suegest ably anti-Semitic; here is the nove.list that all autobiography is fiction. wluir I Prauz Werfd. kept by Alma in his study mean is that a writer of autobiographies, like a pet squirrel; here are the grand old ch00si~ to foUow a charscter through a men of Austrian letters, Hennann Bmcb life that happens to be inspired by his and Robert Musil, and the mysterious ” . ow”, bestows upon that character composer Albau Berg. Here is a young characteristic of his own biogmphy in au man’s homage to Gcorg Blicbnn, the effort to convince us of the reality of his father of modem Gemmu literature. And story. Autobiography is in effect the hcm,overall,hasenssofarapidiydeclin- ultimate method for provoking the ing world of artistic genius. the almost suspension of disbelief by using the argu- mythical Vieuua of the 1930s poised on ment of authority; the authority is the the brink of the Ansdduss. author himself. Elias Cauetti is Bliss ThePlayofthel3ysirinfactpartof Cauetti’s most accomplished character, a work in progress. Whether Canctti the because eve.” his impossibilities are author chooses to follow Cauetti the bdicvable. We have these facts, we say, character to bis death (and thereby leave from tbe horse’s mouth. the work unfinished) or whether he will And yet “accomplished” does “ot bn- give him a frewvillcd end (ii flames. ply “chan”bQ.” Rcadiug a” autobio- perhaps, like that he gave to Kant), we graphy is in many ways like iisteaing to will have to wait.unti1 then to recoguize qomeone talk about himself as if he were theshape of this autobiography. In the observing his past in a reflectkin. To meantbne, readers are left with a rich, engage us, it is important that tbis pcr- deliberate story i” which a wise old man son should charm us. We may think him (the author) travels back through tbne to a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a teacher of meet himself when youug (the char&u). adive w&in&, but w must like him. I There is uo dialogue betwen them, fmd it hard to Iii Canetti the character, because the young man cannot speak even if Canetti the author, writing about back (this fiction does not allow him. is compelliug. For instance: Cane& anachronisms) but in @his onevoiced ti the character - accordiig to the exploration of the seuses (the tongue iu author’s preMntatio” - be@us The P&J the first volume, the ears in the second, qf&I#w deeply anguished because he the eyes in the third) Canetti has begun has reached the end of the master novel a vast Bildungsroman about one man’s he has been writing. 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I too met pound of young lovers. “when the moon there, otlmyway toSouth Afdcaio 1971 By Spading Mills burned through our blood.” Yet after - just a few months before he died. consummation, the poet dllcatds the im- Sk&on sums up his lmpresslon of the Dbtances, by Robin Skelton, Por- agery of nakedness, and ass.xts: great poet: “fittdiog in age/a new copioe’s Qua, 77 pages, 57.95 paper you have mniked al!wys spring/of clearer water.” (ISBN 0 88984 077 6). lhmugh my dnp like rra, Sk&on also alhtdes to Pound in “The The Colleeled Longer Poems and, like Ihe wees, Dark Window,” B long, complicated 1947-1977, by Robin Sk&on, Sono Nia, 1 haw heard sllllncv Jound. . WBT poem. In copious notes at the back 182 pages, 516.95 cloth (ISBN 0 919203 “Timelight” contimtes tlie light of the book, he recalls that “Ezra Pound 72 8). imagery. It b&s, “It is a tjme for WBS loiprisorted in a cage by the U.S. change./1 move slowly/through dark Artoy when captured during the It&to w WELD IN Distances are quiet and impulses/towards the @ht.” Also campaign of the second world War” delicate., the most importtmt theme be- repeated are reflectioos on age sod love, and continues with details of other iy “Ufe’s perpetual” - Ufe has no as lo “A man turning/to sge turns/ poets: Byron, Pope, Dotme, Keats, begiotting and no cod. An offshoot of gently” and “LoveJturning in Kupert Brooke. Lorca, and more. He this theme is the idea of age, as Skeltoa age,/tums calmly.” The podt is listening seeox almost to be identifying with them frequently refers to his 50 years of more, searching for the answers. He as cootempomriea - GUI if he knows writing poetry. In “I.aokii Back” he believes that “gathered symbol&” such them persomdly. At the same time, how- describes the poet getting old: “age,/its as “the paintings, the books, the ever, there is a realization that thkse failing memory/its tired hand/stiIl tap- will “outlast their time”: poets arr “accepted” IIOW in their great- pin8 out what once/it scribbled fast.” :r=” ness. Does Sk&on hope to be io their Sometimes, BS in “The Performance” number? He tells us in “Remembering he im&nes his own death as B play he Syw.” that he tried to portray “a man’s hasn’t seen yet, and admits he wottdm passionate imagination.” That same if it will end in termr sod “a sud- force is pesent in Robin Sk&on’s own deo/darloxess.” In spite of his fear, work. Cl however, he says he till stomble through this darkness - “home.” Although most of the poems in this coUection Bre near pelfection, there Bm “Cohen’s people live in a world filled to the brim with some that display an acmbatic use of words that is unacceptable.. One of these tinsciousness, with dreams, daydreams, fantasy.. . is “De Nihilo,” in which, in B poem of the imagination at work in its many forms.. .” 20 lines, Sk&on employs the word ~‘nothII” 14 times. In “A Fourteenth Way of Looking at B Bls.ckbl” his judgemeot is much more true. He still is playlog around with words. but the coo- cept is clever-although a bit ecceotaic. Following the success of The Disinherited and The Coloun of Skelton’s most endearing ability is the wty in which he fmds meaning in the War - the last two books in the much acclaim&l Salem fragile and the small. In “Wasp Nest” quartet, comes Cohen’s The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty the nest becomes “the breast/or belly of Malone and Flower8 6f Darkness. some anciettt/wanior goddess” or “the bulging head/of some decapitated giant.” The poem in The Colkck?d Longer Poem 194%1977dosesl to the tone and stmctun of D.&kznws is “Messages.” Surprisingly. it is not the most recent, although in the Introduction Sk&on in- dicates that for this collection he has done some further work on it. There me 45 small poems comprising “Messages”; some me almost BIJ small as haiku. with that form’s clarity but with an added philosophical layer. 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Who Hid& lo the Park (Tundra, alive and heals the trouble between Katie white horse, all the way across the dceau 36 pages, S17.95 cloth) presents and Charles. Wallace’s watczcolours are to America. artist War&& Asks’s vision of full of light and soft textw. The As a youug married woman in a Vancouver’s famous Stanley Park. A children am part of a rcmautic. idealized mobster-filled New York, grandmother sequel to Who Goes to the Park (1984). countryside of luxuriant, flowering took up card playing as a supplementary which featured Toronto’s Hi Park. it plants, colourful insects and birds, and means of support for her family. And as was published to coincide with Expo 86 SOR mists and clouds. a white-haired, plump old lady she con- and to mark the upcomiug 100th anniver- There are a few buildings in the land- tinues winning, whatever the game and sary of Stanley Park, which was opened scape, all blending hammniously with whatever the stakes. One marveUou5 ille OffciaIy iu 1888. The book contains 16 their surrouudiuga. suggesting a perfect tratiou shows graudmother travelliug by full-page paintings, most showing balauce between mau’s needs and nature. train to visit her sou iu California and children enjoying the park’s many attcao No power turbium chum up the water in spending the whole tmnscont&ntal tip tions, such as the forest trails, the the Niagara Gorge. Only a ring buoy soaking iu a bii tub that two portrxs keep beaches, the aquarium, and the lookouts from the Maid of the M&t, hanging for ftied with fresh orange juice. In Califor- over the harbour. nia, the whole visit is spent in a two-week- Aska’s paintings may not appeal to the attic, and a few subtle guard rails at tbe zhpAitrgame arranged by her son in literal-minded. He has worked hard to edae of the cliffs suavest that there could evoke the old legends that live on iu the be-s”& 8 thing ai ;;tcuiist. These e&odes are amusing, but the park, once the site of Coast Sal&h settle- Fantasy depicted in art is also an im- text and pictures also clearly portray the ments. His park is a magic place, where portant elwnait of Lindee Clime’s C2yde, tender relationship between the old children’s imaginations have free reiu. (Tundra, 24 pages, 311.95 cloth). but in ’ woman and her gmuddaugbter. their where exotic auimals and multi-coloured this book a” accompanyfug story plays a wret.5, rituslr, excwsiom, aud the special birds join in their games. and where they major part. CIyde;the farm horse, is memories left when grandmother dies. can e?rplore secret places to tind out who upset when it appears that he is being blTheClematiouofSamMcGee(Ki& in fact does hide, in the park. The f&s replaced by a tractor. He dreams how he Can Press. 32 pages, $14.95 cloth), of old Indian gods and symbols peer out might change the parts of his body for Robert W. Szvice!s popular and grub at the children fmm the gnarlti trunks variou%umchinepartsorpartsfromother some yam in verse pro@dm a splendid of living trees as well as from the totem animals so that he would stiU be useful vehicle for Ted Harrison, who has made poles ou Bmckton Point. The children’s and loved. Clime’s iUustmtions take us much of his reputation as au artist from real bodii run, tumble, and frolic on the his paint&s of the Yukon. His bright ground while their dream bodies often 0” for exaulple, we see Clyde’s colours and flowing lines somehow float above them to the tops of the giant head and shoulders attached t6 the back manage to suggest both the vibrancy and fumesoroverthebwitbtbe!xites. wheels and controls of a tractor and to rhythm of uortbem life as well as the The colows are rich, Aska’s tire of blues -the front Iegs of a cheetah (for speed). extreme c&i and isolatioa The marge of and greens in par!icular reflecting the Clyde later adds the wings and talons of Lake L.ebarge looks wonderfully austere llrshness of the setting. an eagle and tries out, among other and haunted, with a gjaut. orange suu The accompanying text provides corn- things, the bodies of a fuh and frog. hovering over the Alice ltfw as she lies, mentary and is presented in three Of course., by the end of the story he trapped iu fields of blue and white ice. At languages: Euglish, French, and Aska’s realizes that these dream chaugcs don’t the cud. Sam, happy at last “in the heat native Japanese. The book also includes reaUyworkforbbu,andthathecaube of the furmice roar,” Eairly aacklm with at the cud several p~%e~ of factual notes loved and useful in his own form. Young warmth and colour. about the pans of the park shown in the cbikben should enjoy the iucongmity of Notes by Harrison accompany each paintings as weU as a detailed map. Clyde’s attempts to be something other iUustratio”, pibvidiug commentary 0” The Sparrow’s Song, by Ian Wallace thau what he was meaut to be, and will Yuko” life: ‘LThe pad&whe&s bumed (Pen&~ 32 pages, $12.95 cloth), is perhaps also relate to the fairly obvious wood as as a fuel aud numerous wood auother book in which the ilh~strations leJlouthatitisbestjusttobcyoursclf. supply statious wem placed at strategic have more to say than the accompanyills Talcs of a Gambling Gmmluta (Tuu- intervals along the banks of the Yukon text. The story is simple.. A girl, Katie, dm, 32 pages, $14.95 cloth) is another River. There would be. more than enough TheUniversity of Calgary Press o Western Canadian history titles 0

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Two books of differing orientation - one feminist, one homosexual - explore the effects of untimely death on those who are left behind By Doughs G/over .

EON* GOM’s Housebroken deal with tl~eorsxularmessage they carry takes up most of the book, Daniel (Newest Press, 207 pages, S17.95 - the truth of which, often enough, is remembers how he and Be”jtin and cloth, $7.95 papa) is a feminist rape. either as fact or as an image of their two friends, Chuck and Bart, parable, a sad, gritty, and uncom- oppression. (One is reminded of Jeffrey trapped themselves I” Tony’s evil web, fortable (by design) work, a Masson’s discovery that Freud ignored how they supported one another, how I scratching-the-open-sore novel in the tnlth of child molestklg. preferrblg to they tried to escape, and how o”e by one which the hemine dies (by accident bclleve that tbe chikke” he treated bad they were murdered. Daniel, the last of or suicide) before the beglmdng fantasized their trauma.) the four, finally avenges his friends, and the narrative recounts the As a work of axt, Housebmken is a taking a taxi around Detroit, stbppiog betrayals, lies, and evasions that little too partisan. B little too program- along the way to shoot Tony and Ids ldllcd her. matic to be entirely suasprul. It depends sadistic cm”les to death. i The plot is part psychoanaly- for its impact on the reader’s sharing with It’s not that nothing happens in One sis. part detective story. When the novel the author a set of tacit meanings. Out of Four. The novel is full of erec- opens Susan Jervls has just driven her van ass”mp4io”s. and arguments. (“I know tions, orgasms. brutal rapes, and gory off the road in the Hope Slough outside what iaps tocans,” says EUm - but she Cbilliwack and dmwncd. Her husband never tells.) Ellen Grey, as narrator. car- iiscs to the level oi the pm-& 0°C Ii”& Whitman drops a box of her diaries, ries a tremendous technical load; she is in the letters section of Pcnlhouse. The poems, and stories off with their victim and tormentor, particip+,nt and pmmotional ngterid accompanying my neighbow, a 45year-old widow named interpreter. At the end, her mles swamp review copy says, “one our of Four is Elle” Grey. Tbrougb the rest of the book, her: she preaches at Whitman for sins she astorybaKdonuulh.“Maybethisisso. Ellen delves i”to tbe box for Susan’s ver-’ has herself committed sgainst Susan. But Martii has written his book so b& skm of the oat3 Ithwarted childhood love Both Whitman and Ellen are ponderous that I don’t believe a word of it. affair, unimp~y marriage, crippling character% Susan Is lively and perks up His characters arc shallow and predio neumris) v~hile mtelling hers (lw fr*nd- every pa@ she’s allowed to appear on, table. and delineated in the main bv tb*r ship with the funny, wacky, idealistic but g~ey Ellen is the teller of tbe tale, the pref&nce for apcciflc sorts of Sa (the Susan, ha secret affalr with Whitman, editor of Susan’s manticripts, the keeper “ssimple” Texas hunk who won’t he her owt bwestigation of Susan’s Ufc). of her soul. passive, the fag queen saving for his sex- After Susan’s death, Ellen discoven I” One Out of Four (Coach House change operation, the Polish boy fmm some grisly truths: Susan knew she was Press, 256 pages, $12.50 paper) Donald Cleveland who only likm to be spanked). sleepii with Whitman. and her cbild- Martin has managed something I would The plot is fYl of pastiche and pop- hood love affair was a fantasy that con- have thought almost Impossible-he has cultural borrowings (a conlidence scam cealed a d-life rape. Susan. it nuns out, written a dull novel about four homo- by whlcb Daniel fakes bls own death to was a bright and beautiful bii in a cage, sex”alpros!it”test”mi”gtrlcksblM”rda escape Tony. bloody murders d Ia ump- sbtginp bravely while the bars shrank City, U.S.A. teen American movies since Taxi Driver, around her. Her friends and family dld The book opeas with Daniel, a Jewish Tony’s death out of Lolita). nothing to help her escape; indeed, they boy from Montreal, ntumiog to Detroit A curreat best-seller in the U.S., Lest almost conspired to smother her truth. for the funeral of his friend Be&& a Ihun Zero. by Bret Easto” Ellis, though The essential Idea of Xo”s&&en ici f- coUcag”e in pmstltution, who has a second-rate book in itself, deals much that so&y prefers to belleve that women been murdered by their Italian pimp more stylishly with similar material. and are neurotic, irrational beings rather than Tony. In an elaborate flashback that gives a clearer picture of the mxus of exploited youth, money, drugs, violence, ‘ing about; Martin reads as though he Imidentauy. ScotI symons write4 a and sex in tbis strange demimonde. At made his story up after r&ii a balf- gllshhg preface for one OK1 ofFour that least Ellis seems to know what he’s talk- dozen issues of Honcho. diminishes him as a critic. Cl

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ORN IN CBICAOO in 1943, and writing, the incredible fmoginmion, the mother was P little bit strange. and that educated in the United States, way he uses language. And then I’ve Matthew’s grandfather was kind of Susan I&slake moved to Canada responded to minimalist titers, like Ray- weird? I thought. Clod, this is so con- in 1966. She is the author of two mond Carver, who&e entirely different. trived! Theo it came to me that this. novels, Mlddlewa:ch (Oberqn You have these blunt onwwrd sentences represented the decadence of the East. It Press) and Peoumbro (Aye Press), and two-line paragraphs, and yet they was wonderful. It fit perfectly and I and has recently completed a tblrd, create an enOrmO”S sense of anxiety. I hadn’t planned it at all. provisionally titled Seasoning find.1 don’t read a lot of bestsellers. BIG: The three men in Seasoning Fever Fever. I-Is collection of short because I find the langusgc boring. hove dweering views ofHannah. She is stories, Book of Fears (Ragweed BiC: Have you read HP. Lovecmtl or o dirferent archetype to each 4f them. Press) was nominated Ias year for Stephen &g? ICwsIpke: Yes, for me it was very a Governor General’s Award. ~erslmke: I haven’t read Lovecraft, but interesting to watch that evolve. To Named one of the IO best young fiction I have read King’s The Shining and Per Matthew she was an object of p&on and writers in Canada in the Canadian Book Semelarv. Those are suite different from inspiration; he needed her. To Gabriel she Information Centre’s 45 Below promo- what Pm doing. tb&h he’s good at was the Earth Mother. To Tully she was tion, Remlake now lives in Halifax, where creating awl&y. I don’t think that my the female ideal. stamling at the edge of she was interviewed by R.F. Macdonald: stories create anxiety. although people the sea aRe.r he bad crossed the whole have told me that they fmd them disturb- continent. a very romantic image.. Tully Books in Canmix lvho do you read? ing. People try to read them all at once, initially fell in love because she was the SUZUI ISersIalre: I read things where I’m and they don’t realize that it took me two older woman, and there were no other wowed by tbe author’s seosc of imagbm~ years to write them. They don’t create women around besides his mother and lion. I’m reading Michel Tounder - in anxi&y in me at all. Someone asked me sister. It wa8 a juvenile mmantic vision: tmoslatlon, I admit-whose imaginadoo if they were a cathartic experience, but “1 can still bnaglne you and take you is amadng. He uses language really well. that doesn’t happen at all. army from all tbis. . . .” There are other people - for example., BIG: An they them~ofic? BIG: You write with tan obvious eorfor Toni Motion, Joyce Carol Dates, Lomn ISdake: No:They lkame &don. They the wwy wonissound, not just for what Eiseley, and Mark Helprin, whom I weren’t a purging experience. Wheo I’m they meott. There b some extroordimxy adore; everything is there for me in his writing them, I’m only Interested in the language in your novels. Susan Kerskke process of writbx rather than the I(crdeke: I tldnk tbis is what I do that is k?XpUi~e. different - I won’t say whether that is BIG: YoUi new novel, Seasoning Fever, what I do best. I really like the sounds of seems more focused than the other two words. I haven’t read a lot of poetry, but novels, Middlewatch and Penumbra. I like what I guas is called “fme wiling.” Some of this ntoy be bemuse you set it When I’m reading where I’m pulled up on the Pmiries mther than the Atlantic short by the language, that for me is a coavt. positive expetie.nce, not a negative one.. Kerslake: I needed that kind of environ- I love it. I was readlog Joy Kogawa’s ment - I needed an edge. One of the Obasan, and it gave me chills. For me, things I had in mind to &lore was peo- rereading a particular paragxapb doea not ple’s reIationsbiRto a land that is totally represent any kind of break in the con- disinterested in them. Also there was thd timmm; tbat’s’what books do, that’s what element of time: people who live in the wor&arefor.Wonlscanbepmcdcaland present aad people who live in the future; very straightforward and just give you in- Matthew, the main character, was very formation, but they also can give you ml aware ofthe future tluough dreams and entirely differem expelience. things - the way things are going to BiC: Many people /ina your prose very cbanee. the v/av be wants to change db%dt. Your books cnn’t be reed things.:. -. WY. BiC: The two orincipots. Hannah and lake: I’ve had people say to me, Matthew, lmve-the e&b&?d society oo “Yowbookisreallyhardtoread.“Isay the Eust Coast for the oew We oti the that they don’t have to read it - I’ll still Pmbies. They &em to have little room be their friend. Thev sw. “No. no, it’s in the ordered life of the ebrt. worth it. I just ha& to &I it&&e KersIelre: Did you notice that Hannah’s by sentence.” I realize there’s a lot of

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