5EATMRES 6 Ths AppmnGeashlp 01 Paul Guarrlnglon. One 01 Canada’s ‘10 best young writers’ seeks 10 make the ordinary seem exlraordlnary. By Barbara Wads Bose 7 Ths Top Tsn. A new list introdwxs lhe best writers 01 Lbe ‘posl+dwwd generalion.’ bul not everyone is likely lo agree 11 Thhd ImpressIons. The Gnal bwk in Gertrude Story’s trilogy is incomprohenslbte wkboul having read the llrst two. By Gary Fwn 20 CrGlcal N01Icos. Brie1 reviews of recent Gclion. non-flction. and poetry 25 Fsychsd Gut. Two books about the human mind lndicdle lhat science Is best left lo lbe scll)ntlsls. By Keith Malllard REVIEWS 12 Mr. Spalktr: Ths Man In tha llddls. by James Jermne 12 85: G&?l Cmudlan Stmlsr and Coming Allractlonr 3. ediled by David Helwig and Sandra Martin 15 Tha Entmpransws: Tha Story 01 Gsndlr Inc.. by Albs” 0. Cohen: Thn Money Ruslbrs: Sall-Mads Mllllonalns 01 the New Was,, by Paul Grescoe and Oavld Cruiss: Pansy Makers: Ths Secrets of Canada’s Most Succastlul Enlnpronaurs. by Ksnneth Barnes and Evorstt Banning 16 The Gsgansrstors: Social CrGiclrm In Ma Vlclorian English Canada. by Ramsay Cook 16 Ths Glass Air: Sslsclud Poams. by P.K. Page 17 Tha Sslsctsd Jmwnalr of L.M. Monlaomw. Volums I: lGE9-1910. edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waters1011 19 ThP Pundlr. b” Llovd Ta,aryn L&w land. by Sasthia Bra&: The Walls 01 India. by George Wwdmck 1. by Palrlcla Pkrce I~ hu George Faludy: Gab 1 and Gab 2. by Bnberl Zend is 01 Allm Grossman. by Peter Oliver: “Honart Enough to 8s Bold”: The Llls and Tlmss 01 Sk James Ally VVhHtiny. by Chariss W. Humphdes 32 Canada and ths Arab Wortd. edited by Tamp Y. tsmael; Canada and tB Birth 01 Ismal: A Study in Canadian Forslgn F0Gcy. by David J. BMcwOn 33 Upeoasl Summon. by B&Hill 35 Gackmbms: A Stary of Polltler. by Colln Thatcher: Uany Deny Dany: Ths Rlss and Fall 01 Colln Thatchor, by Garrett W&on and Lesley Wllwn 35 Yllfe 01 . . An Irmaron, Accounl ti Uh In WashIngIon. by Sandra Gollieb DEPA#BIMEhYIUs 3 Uold NDlss 40 LaGerr 5 EngUsh. Our English. by Bob Blackburn 42 Gocommended 36 Plrsl NowIs, by Uouglas Glov-er 42 Roceivsd 38 Intewlsw with Aoberl Harlw by Geoll Hancud 42 CanWG ND. 109 ~ONTRIElUlU~RtSJ Jack Baton is at work on a book about ludgss. Bob Blackburn is pmprielar 01 On-Line Ediling. Claim Gmvmsmmba is a fnelance wile1 with a special inlerost In s&flee and nature. Wands Btynn Csmpbsll is the author of The Promise (Pulp Press). Gob Carrkk is a freelance writer In ThornhIll. 0111. Gavid CollmoG~. 1 former federal cabIna mlnlslw. is secretary-general 01 lhs Liberal Party 01 Canada. Gregory M. Cook Is lhl) author 01 Love in Fllghl (Ragweed Press). Valsris ds Monllgny Is a fmreslanm writer In Tou&e. Uue. Shsmn Gnchs wdter for the Jerusalem Posl and other publlcatlons. Lmns Ellarchuk operates CELE Books in Kilchener. Ont. Caty hgan Is the proprietor of Bhaw Street Pmss. Rq Rtlp’s Grst collBEtlon of shorl slories Is to be publishsd shodly by Guernica Edilionr. and gouglss Glow’s second c~Gectl~~ has just been releassd by Talanbaokr. Phtl HIS’S most recent bwk is WhyI Hawn’l Wrillen (Grlck Bwkr). Gogor Hall Is wllaboraling on a book about Ihe 19thCentury Canadian photographer Willlam Notman. GsoG Hancock Is edilor 01 Canadian Fiction Magazine. V&Is Kalkr is a lrsslance wrilsr In St. Albert. Alla. Myron Low Is a Winnipeg jo!mwGsl and researcher. Ann LukGs. also in Winnipeg. writes lrequsntly about health malters. Kotth Malllard (The Knllein My Hands. Musson) is a Vancouver novelist. Douglas Mateotm is a Toronto film librarian and suspensa-liction bull. Judy Marg~lB is editor of CA Magazine Gnbm Hahn8 is a lmelanca critic In Montreal. Slsvs MeCabo. whose drawings appear throughout the Issue. is B Toronto arGs1. S.A. Nwman reviews bwks in Picker- Iq. Ont. Paul Grnnstaln’s photographs 01 litsrany penonalities appear lrequanlly in these pages. I.M. Gvmn is a freelance critic. as is Sharln Fnsssorskl. SrucO Men Fmw Is I l~rmer political organlrar lor Lsster Pearson. Ksv,n Gob&i’s most recsnl book Is Pkking Ike Morning Cofaur (Oolichsn Books). Barbara Wads GosO Is a Toronto joumallst. Stllla SandshI teaches Hlndi at ths Uniwslty 01 Toronto. Grant Gavld Shilllq is a Vancouver lreelance wrltor. Mary Mntlls SmGb. who r&iews children’s books for BDoxs in Canada. Is I dwoted reader 01 L.M. Monlgomery. Volksr Strunk &achns at York University and cooks at hams. Gomk Guchwd. a lomwr soldlsr. IS edilDr 01 Tomnfa Business. Allan Welsr will have his l&x to Canadian Sk&l Sfodes published Ihls fall by ECW Press. Nancl WTdls is a freelanes edltor and eDmmunicaGons teacher. Janet Wlndslar writes lielion and teaches piano. EDITOR 0 Michael Smith MANAGING EDITOR 0 Fraser Sutherland ART DIRECTOR 0 Mary Lu Toms $ GENERAL MANAGER and ADVERTISING MANAGER 0 Susan Traer CIRCULATION MANAGER a Susan Aihoshi CONSULTANTS 0 Robert Farrelly 0 Jack Jensen Desert song More than simply a meeting place, Mexico’s mysterious Zone of Silence provides unique insplratlon for a trilingual group of wrlters and artists

Cl.ASS*CAL country scene of it got its name, the area was a sacred Jeanne MacDonald Pokier, a M&is spruce woods and snowy fields place For native shamans. who some- poet From Quebec, Found a meditation surrounds me as 1 write. Logging times travelled long diitances to perform spot hiih on a hill, where she could look trucks rumble by en mute to the rituals and healing ceremonies. We were out over miles of desert. Although she nearby Rouge Matawl” provincial the first’ organ&d group of artists to wrote several short poems. she produced Forest reserve. I hear chainsaws. make the pilgrimage. most of her work back home. several blue jays. This is Lac Macaza, We came in early December with our months later. Vancouver writer/poet Que. tents, sleeping bags, and equipment, and Norbert Ruebsaar recorded interviews A little more than a year ago I settled in among the stones and dust with all of us, which he later edited For was 3,000 miles away, giving a near a watering hole known as radio, but the poetry that came atit of sunset reading in a” abandoned Mohdvano, one of three oases in the the desert experle”ce didn’t begin .to gravayard in a remote north- region. Apart From the shade of a hand- flow until he to” had been home For a “ester” Mexlca” desert known m the ful of mesquite trees, our only protee while. Zone of Silence. I hadn’t bathed For a tlon From the desert sun came Fmm the To me, it seemed ridiculous to wield a couple of weeks and no longer eve” tried straw or Felt hats that we all wore so pm when so many beautiful stone, to get a comb through my hair. My’ rellglllwly that I can still clearly recall Fossils, armwheads, and other treasures clothes held so much dust that they each person’s hat. The rattlesnakes, offered themselves to my fwers. Get- appeared to be snmlderl”g as I walked tarantulas, and scorpions were mostly ting the desert down on paph would - back and Forth among the Fallen wooden holed up For the winter, but cactus did - come later. It still does. I can’t cmsses readI”g first l” Spanish, then I” doesn’t hibernate and there were several toss a log into my woodstove without French, and Finally in 6nglish. billion spines to deal with. Once we recalling the little gnarled cactus roots The audiam I Faced was as sparse as learned the rules of relationship with that I prized so highly For my cooU the desert landscape around us. But Clod these stubborn, st_oic. heroic plants, they fke4 in the Zone. seemed to be handling the special became a source of inspiration. They One opportunity the project offered effects. The sky brought out all its best ended up witing a prominent place in was the chance For various artists to colours. and the wind gathered a troupe almost everyone’s axstive work. watch each other wotk. At best, the of clouds For a brief, speclacular petfor- 0” an average day, we were up shortly writers I know have superficial notions manee. Meanwhile nearly half my au- after dawn. Atker breakfast around the about the art world. Artists suiTa From dience was moving about photographing campfire, we were off into the desert, the san~e isolation (although I know me, taping me, fhing me in video and occaslonalIy in ‘pain or teams, but more artists who read novels tha” in Super-8. Tc&her we were par- usually alone. The artists worked o” In- novelists who look at art). tlclpating in the Zone of Silence project, nallation pieces at Four different sites. I recall a” exchange I had with Be”- a month-long gathek%g of Canadian The muslclans experimented with plants, jamin Medal just after the project. He and Mexkx” sculptors. writers, mpsi- stones, and other objects to discover burst beam& From his video studio in clans, film-“mkets. pholographers, per- their musical potential. The film-makers Durango, Mexico, to tell ma that the formance artists, a compdser, eve” a trailed us to record our activities. bnages he had filmed at my reading were historian, as well as kids and dogs. For the writers, it was not a place to so good that he planned to let them The Zone of Silenceis not a” ordinary stand alone, without the recording of my desert. Discovered in the 1960s by Max- voice. We laughed about it later, but at iean engineer Harry de Ia Pelia while he the time I told him a writer mht have was exploring For oil, it has slnca at- different p&rides about sound and tracted scientists From all over the world. image - especially where it concerns her The “silence? has to do with irregularly own readlblg. emitted Hertzian waves, which render But Medel and Carlos Majul, our radio communication impossible. It orha Mexican fdm-maker. were the doesn’t prevail over the whole tarrltory, only ones who Felt they could convey the but occurs in bands or strips. Batteries slgnIficancc of the project with& using are liable to deebarge in certain areas, words. Performance artists silvy Panet- too. and m”~passed r&se to point Raymond and Francisco Ciareia both north. The Zone acts as a gzeat mag”et. wrote lively, imaginative demiptions pf altractlng large quantities of meteorites, their ventures, as did Richard Mart& which occur occasio”alIy in “‘showers.” devote much time to writing. It wasn’t editor of ,X’TER magazine and artktlc It is also pamdbe For the amateur. comfortable enough. One sat on the jackoF4l-trades. sculotor Llse Lab+_ geologist or archeologist. A” e”0n”O”S gmund with no backrest, because it was -ad composer l-i&&d WcrterLamp: variety of mlnemls ca” be Found, high dangerous (scorpions) to lea” on things. The short texts by my Mexlca” husband, quality Fossils are abundant. and anyone I Found this position tolerable For no Do&go cisnems - who originated with a sharp eye GUI fmd a dozen arrow- more than two hours at a Lime. Mostly, I the project - read like prose poems. heads in a day’s wandering. Long before took notes. With the help of the Quebec ministry

..-... . __. 7.7. -. _._. .__ - - __- -_. .-__. of cultural affairs. the Zone of Silence Montreal’s English-laKgUage poets. emoting: “This field enters all participants have produced a show that They include veterans such as Leo Ken- possibilities:/tinger-length variations of has run at the Mu&e du Quebec in nedy reading his erotica; vi_sithg weed and grass/pry open my rib cage.“. Quebec city and the Ottawa School of dllnitarles like Brln Mour& Pat Lane. “Hot stuffl” the DJ hooted. Art, and till travel to other cities in and Loma Crozler; younger rosepickers The silent ones. the beautiful heavy- Canada. Mexico, and Europe over the such as Peter Van Toom, Bud16 Farkas, breathers, or a Ron Evason hauntingly next 18 months. In the meantime, we’re Bill Furey. Anne McLean, Brian intoning. “none knows where we are” going back. Clsneros and I will revisit Bartlett, and Michael Harris; and bud- - the bellringers for poetry are still out the Zone this summer, and the other ding rookies like Noah Zaeharin, there. The lines are busy. -BAY tw.tP pmjea members are discussing another Howard T&u, &ther Ross, Johanne stay in the spring of 1987. Silence like Lalleur, and Margaret Clirlstakos. (Free WrnPanY. -WANDA aLxNNcAMPBEt.L. Verse, a similar service orgatdzed in Taking it to Ottawa by Deborah McMullin, cm be reached at (613) 738-0604.) Lord of ’ Anderson’s labour of love tuna on a the streets rl118 and a payer. The Word book store, IN A DAY when most Canadian writers the rings Ar8o Books, The Double Hook, Stew are sustained by teaching jobs and arts Welch Books, V6hicule Press. and grants, one ” stands out. For the past others have chipped in the SSO-a-week to eight years, Grad Rilodney has been HOW TO BRIDOE that lolldistmw feel- support their chosen authors. Other writing and selling his own self- i”8 between poet and public? For as funds have come out of Anderson’s publisbed books as his sole occupation. maw as 3.000 telephone callers a week, pocket and the proceeds fmm Clifford Six days a week. Kilodney can be found the inswer is an &tmion of the omi Duffy’s fkst book, Blue Dog Plug. The strategkxlly located on the streets of tradition: Dial-a-Poem, operated by taped presentations conclude with infor- Toronto, his briefcase by his side and a Fortner Anderson, publisher of Dromos sign hung around his neck that pm- Editions in Montreal. At the end of a be obtained. Like put& running shoes nounces him “WORLD’S ORBATB~T particularly hectic day, the taped on a caterpillar, it helps-their books *urtioq:~ meaage on Anderson’s Codeaphone move faster. “Most of the time on the street I just watch the urban mbots go by,” says it spookily fad& out and in like the voice set up two or three more lines. His ambi- Kllodney, author of Sex S/Uw of Ihe of a spirit medium. tion is to lnclude francophone poets and Afro-Mutam% and I4 other books,’ So far callers to (514) 843-1636 - in eventually works by censored or im- “and most i8nore me. Most of the letters, it spells out xiwotzht - have prisoned Thii World writers. He has human race is truly pathetic. Real heard readingp by more than 35 of already taped Rllpino poet Rdmundo clvillzation hasn’t arrived yet on tbis Famlan, Spain’s Manuel Bctanzos San- planet. I write mostly humour because it tos, and the multi-talented Chilean provides pwchological relief. If I didn’t, Renato Tmjillo’s “Icarus”: I would be crushed by the weight of my wirh mu bonds own saiousness. It’s no accident that a fOJ=w lot of my humour is laced with tragic -McCLiLLAND’ motifs.“- AND A ssmple, from his short story “Mr. Scblepp and His Ace Mechanic”: It’s a ram individual who w msnags to STEWART loss hL job and hls wifeon thcsameday and, what’s more. be taken completely by swprlse ,in both casu. That that is prod of its events struck Sidney Schlepp as vnfor- seen bolls out of the blue sw some- thing about his judgemmt. That they “45 Below” Authors struck him on the lsnle day says ‘anO That is perhaps somewhat the way thing about his luck. New York poet Jolm Giomq, originatoi Kllodney’s satire on academe, Pork Aritha van Herk of the Dial-a-Poem in his own city, felt Co/kge (Coach House Press), is only the when the FBI descended on hbn follow- tblrd of MS books not to be pub&hed ing a tape by Diane Di Prima that told under his own imprint. charnel House. David Adams Richards how to concoct Molotov cocktsils and In the past he has produced such homemade bombs. Shortly after her memorable titles as LtghIning StruckMy Janette Turner Hospital reading, someone had bombed the IBM Dick (Virgo Press, 1980). Lately, building.. however, he has taken to colour-codlng: Matt Cohen his last five titles have been The Omnge came in the form of an envelope from Book, The Green Book,. The Blue Book, the dreaded 0fic-s de la Iangue The Yellow Book, and The Scartgt fmn@e. He opened it up only to Book. l&Ii contains the worthy boast discover a wisp one-dollar bill from a “Charnel House is a private imprint Listener in Polnte Claire who requested a dedicated to artistic freedom and free catalogue of the D&l-a-Poem poets. aterprise.” As for telemarketi~. late one night a “I’m very respectful of local mer- local mck station relayed *tape over the chants,” says Rllodney, who devotes atrwavrr of Robin Potter breathily more than SO hours a week to peddling

_.- ._ .,.. .__;. ). ..;; ,_ _.:. . . . -I-. _,_, ‘:i’_~~~~.~~ i-.- -- .-.._. I r... ..,- ,..... 7 .,.e.:-.z-- .,.--: -.-e,.. . .y:.__ .._T ,: ir-:.:. a- his books. “I Like to be 6” a main street by cmssiw the street YOU see a differat anyone or anything. I may get published with a good flo\v of pedestrians. I avoid c&d.” - by others in the future, but I’mnot look- trendy areas such as YorkvilIe or Q&n Born in New York and a graduate of ing for a publisher. ‘Ike main ream” is Street Wat. as well Bs specialized areas the University of Michigan, the 37-war- that I csll make more money doing my such as the University of Toronto am- old KlI0dne.y has “no CoonII tralninp” own book: and Mling them on the pus. SeUlng takes place either in a vacant in literature or creative writing. (He has street. doorway or against a plain wall of a a degree in astronomy.) Nevertbderr, he “I figured that such a” aodacIous luge boildllg. osuauy manages to sell a press-m” of move would attract some at&lo” and “There is “o advantage whatever in, 750 copies within six months. His prolit help me cultivate a local readership. I standing near a book store.. I used to sell for Bn investment of $800 is ge”axally didn’t see it as ao end ln itself at the “ear the biggest Coles in Toronto. end about $1,500. beginning, but I know the best thing ls the clientele would completely ignwe “I had bee” published in quite a few just to keep doing il ad not think of the me. I try to work various locations small magazine0 i” the U.S., Cdnada, next stage. I’m’abrady doing better for because. people in Toronto ax such and England,” he says,.“bot I came to myself than the majority of literary creatures of habit that they tend to’ the conclusion that this wasn’t good writers in this col”ltry.” follow the same paths every day. Eve” bnoogh, because it had no impact on -GRANT DAVlD S”“.L.“4G

Off&$ive- language If a company’s product Is communication, Is It too much to expect that Its employees be able to communicate well? By Bob Blackbum

HE MAIL SENT to this colunm leads .I, thank Kennedy WeUs of Alberto”, to mention that WjllIam French’s me to believe that many people P.E.I.. for a letter raninding me of a predictably well-written rev&v of the worry about the fact that the report, bye smdor CBC-TV reporter, 0” federal govermne”t’s new guide to careful writer is an endangered the visit to WashiDgto” last year by the English usage - which I discussed here species. Others who wite pmfes- Prince and Princess of Wales: He wites: last month --‘bore a headline that am- I sionally on this subject share that “[She] said they had opened an whibi- tained one of the commonest zmd most belief, but can take little cmfort tion of ‘aristocratic British artifacts’ and egregious grammatical errors known to from it. The wrong people are that at a press co”fere”ce later, jour- ma”: the misplaced modifier.) \VOlTyiying. “alists were treated to the’%ca”e sight’ I took a few ¬es away from the As a consumkr of the products of the Prince answering questions for keyboard just now to watch a forecast of the communications industry, I the Princess.” I had seen that navscast, by one of our most venerable TV ithink I can guess the identity of but had decided against sbtgling it out weathermen. He warned me of the some of the non-\voniers. for attack; it would have been too easy a bnpendlng arrival of an air mass that My list includes the president of the target. was “movinp in an easterly dbwtion.” I CBC. the publishers of almost all the Nor .will I now say anything more have bee” watching this fellow for about Cyladian periodicals I see,, the head of about it other than that it ls one of a quarter-centmy, always wondering if every broadcasting operation whose pro- thousands of -“s that the pruident hi employer had ever thought of men- duct enters my home (and I do “ot of the CBC ip at the top of tbe above list. tioning to him that he probably would except TVO, the Ontario educational 1 feel stm”gly that the CBC should strive not suffer a loss of credibility were he to TV charmel). the Ontario mbdster of to set w example of mcellence in the use say “nmvi~ eastmrd.” Employers did education. many Canadian book of our two official Ianguagcs. and it that sat of thing when I was a boy, but I publishers. . . but why go on? You get might be appropriate to mention here believe it has gone out of fashion. I the point. that one of the fast little economies im- If I had control of an operation. great I could be wrong. Perhaps some of posed by tbe incumbent president was to or small, whose primary pbtpose was these people do worry, but think that to effect the retlmnent of the corpora- commuqicatfon, I think I would require do ylytblng about it would be a” abuse tion’s lone official watchdog of Bngllsh of the comnudcators I hired that they of their great power. I would welcome usape and turn the wsition into a oat- any evidence that any one or more of tbn;job. these people is doing anything effectual I an h-cd bv the fact that the No publisbii or broadcasting enter- to stem the de&me of careful writing, or Globe and Mail co&nued to publish - prise I am reasonably well acquainted ls troubled by it, or is eve” awaz of it. letters from readers critical of its errors with is without at Ieat a few unployeer Someone (not an on-the-spot in usage, but not by the fact that both who care about carefid ‘?niIiq as de& reporter, who might be pardoned, but the letters and the amrs .are increasing as do you and I, but very few that I someone sitting at a desk in a Toronto in frequency. Again, I feel that a kdow of a& run by people who care (or offiw) wrote tbls sentace in a report 0” publication that styI= itself “Canada’s /mow) enough to do anything about it. a hotel fm: “No Canadians are believed National Newspaper” should strive to -Please .co”tbtoe writing to me, but among the dead.” Whether or not this set an exanple; the mere cheerfo! con- rend a copy to sonwone who ca” do statement bar any validity is a question sumption of humble pie is not enough. (I something about your complaint. .He best left to the mystics; surely it was will not cite anything fmm the sheaf of might have someone in his employ who irrelevant to the report. could explain it to him. 0

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The apprenticeship f Paul Quarringtsn One of the newly acclalmed ‘IO best young Canadlan writers’ seeks to make ordinary characters seem extraordinary and extraordlnary characters seem human By Barbara -Wade Rose

This wonderful plaa was on loan lo me They tbcn said, ‘You don’t have to be.’ ” He thinks for a by Pmfeww Harvey Benson, who second. “1 felt good, because I hate being philosophical.” lepeha Etq!lirh Language and Lilers- As the author of three novels, of wbicb Home Game (1983) lure al ChiliM Uatverslly. It is Iisrv’s and last fall’s ‘The L@ of Hope (lmth published by Double bel@f that I am a young writer of weat day) have &eived eonsic@able but not always flattering promise. snd ii’s good he hss tenure if he’s inclined lo believe such things. attention. Quarrington is resigned to being phiksophieal. - The rrfe Qf Hop.5 Ma&an’s vilit%d Home Game as “that saddest of occur- rences, a joke at which no one Iaugbs” and theareferred to its . BEARDED PAUL QUARRINGTON. B “whimsical style” in a subsequent (more positive) review of 32year-old writer of great promise, sits The Life o/Hope. Home Game was included as a favouite in a bar a few steps north of Queen Straet on a windy afternoon in Tomato. a&a8 1983 books by Toronto Slcrr book critic Ken Ada&i, He sips a beer and muncha on chicken who rscendy, Quarriagton feels, “had lo go out of his way” lo tind something positive to say about The L&z ofHope. “Some wiags as he describes his reaction lo being named, only days before, one of people are saying The We OJ Hopr didn’t get the revinvs the 10 but Canadii writers under 45 ,Home Game did.” Qumrington comments. “I’say that’s OK, years of age. because Home Game didn’t gel tbem either.” “I was prepared to be phiIoso$icaI,~* PAUL QUARIUNGTON. his two brothers, snd a sister grew up in he says in a low. slow voice. “Then they Tomato’s suburbs, the children of a’psychology professor called me up and said, ‘You know this .fathn who still teaches at York University and a child- list, 43 Below?’ I said, ‘Yes, and I’m psyclwlogist mother, now deceased, who practised herprofes- ore~ared to be philosot aion occasionally on Tony, Paul, snd Joel. “She used to like lo devise teats and give them to us,” Quarringlon ramembers. “We got very good at knowing how to alarm her. We could fake all sorts of sexual davianca, shock her, and make her put the tests away.” Music beats an insistent rhythm in the Quarrington blood: a great-grandfather who wlil a harp-builder, lots of music teachers, church organists. and opera singers. and a father who played the trumpet in his youth. Joel pmctised the double bass four or tive hours a day and now Is a distinguiied con- cert musician. Tony (aside fmm writing a doctoral lb& on Ezra Pound) became a singer aad guitarist with Joe Hall and the Continental Drift and the author of such original composi- tions as “King Kong” and “Hawayah.” (His 1978 biographli noted, “We can look for similar mmpositions in the future. barring some major breakthrough in psychotherapy.“) Paul, the middle brother, also spent five years in Joe Hall’s band, tapping awa$ at a typewriter in the momia8s when he wasn’t quite awake (“I don’t like to get my brain involved - it’s too smart for its own good”) and stramming a guitar at night. Despite some plan lo form a fraternal trio, however, music was “aver intended to dominate Paul’s life the way it did hi brothers’. “I knew fmm ever since I could mnemher lb& I wanted to ‘be a writer.” Quavington says as he looks out the window al a streetcar rumbling past. “At around Xl I dsckIed.to write seriously, and wrote some long short stoties. It seems to me jj that I bad a lot of lechntcal probIems to work lkmugb. Of 3 ro;~ some people might say I shouldn’t be so quick to say % . s Two years of studying Hagzlish at the University of Toronto : only convinced Qaarriagton that the academic mute to CanLit was not for him. He Ieamsd by reading other writers, Joha Oardner being a particular favomite, and working without the benefit of writers’ workshops or Canada Council grants. He supported his habit by working at a variety of jobs. “I was was quite takeo aback, sort of gasped audibly aad bad to hold pretty good in the security field,” he recalls. “I could always on to me for support. I rcmembcr tbe way he looked at ha - go back to that. It’s a good job for a writer - they lock you in he was so full of concern. He mast have known why she was a room and make you read all night.” Although he describes alermed, but he turned to look at her because be w&( wonicd himself as “pretty shy,” he learned to plant himself in bars about her.” Qaaniogton developed that incident into the and listen when patrons opened up to hi about their lives; character of Bobby Merrill, the Hippopotamus Boy, along now bars and the bar cars on trains are a wntinoing source of with such others as a bearded lady, Siiesbtwln sisters, and new material. the Alligator Mao. “Merrill is the ugliest guy who ever lived,” During his appreotieghip he began to pat down on paper a Quarriagton notes, “but if you talk to him that’s not his pmb- hi-. imombable _ story about a baseball team of, well. freaks. lem. He doesn’t even consider it. He’s worried that he might Qumington has never talked to such people and dog not con- not be as couragwus as he could be.” sider himself ao expert on baseball. The world he created In No baseball team would be complete without someone to Home Game grew out of his imagination and ability to play against, so the opposbxg team in Home Game is made up observe. of tbc House of Jonah, a religious colt. Rcli&n, particolarly fuadammtalism - a subject that fascinates Quarrington - Elsewhere in the audicna II wanen fainted wkb a shorl. breathy lads a Little divine inspiration to both Home Game and The sueam. slowly tbe Hippopotamus Boy mracd his head in her L@ OfHope. Although his param were agmti~. Qu~g- direction. The groan that wss his spcecb became louder, more ton can remember a period when his father would go to a dif- insistent. The children began to jeer et him: the men murmured sullenly. The Hippopotamus l?ay turned aed walked behind the fcrcot church each week. (“He seemed to like the Buddhist cutteinr. It took sane moments for the people to seltk down. temple most.“) As a boy Paul decided to attend church for a Nathaneel’s eyes didn’t dry. even after he could no longer see tbc while, and now has “a fairly religious side” as well as ao avid boy. late-night curiosity about tclcviston cvaogelists. Bearded, - Home Gzme robed Tckel Ambrose, leader of the House of Jonah, is. WH~LB I WAS gmwiog up ooe df the things the Canadian Quarringto~~ feels, “a pretty admirable person. despite every- National Exhibition had along the midway was a fnwk show,” thing” - including his desire to drive the circus freaks from Quarrington recalls. “I even forget how they advertised him, town. Joseph Benton Hope in 77~ L@ of Hope founds the but what it was was ossified and withered away and all gnarly. town of Hope, Oat., through a d&ire to develop an caperi- and maybe they called hi the Frog Man or something, mental community along the rmes of the Onclda multiple because be had little flippers for arms and no use of his legs. marriage religious homesteads in the United States - and is They wheeled hi out to the ceatre stage. The girl I was with murder& for his efforts. “1 think religious fundamcntaliits The top ten A new list introduces the best fiction writers of the ‘post-Atwood generation,’ but not everyone Is likely to agree

nis mom wAs appropriately chilly Cohen. Bharati Mukhejee, David - with the “Best of Young British as the writer, critic, and bookscllcr Adams Richards, and Gliy Vander- Novelists” promotion campaign gatbercd in the private upstairs room haeghe. Most arc in their late 30s and three years ago, which more tbao of a small Frcoch restaurant in down- - cxccpt for Mukherjee, who now tripled book S&S in Britain for its tow Toronto. Martinis and mineral live3 in the U.S. - they represent duration. With the exception of tbe water were poured sod p8td passed most regions of the country, with the “First Hundred Canadian Novels” in around as the three dicosscd their notable exception of the West Coast. 1980, little has been done to promote favoutite young writers. Theo, one The 10 arc to be flown by the CBIC the collective execlle& of Canadian by one the books were piled on the to Toronto the first week in March writers - and nothing, Montador table, discussed and evaluated, as for a presmt4tion ceremony and a believes, has turned Canadian book- hAargaret Atwod, Robert Emight, Friday-night bssh at Harbourl?ont buyers to yoongcr writers, what be and Beth Appeldoom distilled the 59 tbat is s&doled to be& with a tive- calls the “post-Atwood” generation. entries down to 45 Below - the 10 minute reading fmm each writer. “Atwood and otbcrs of her callbrc best Canadian writers undw 45 years “We believe the lit is fairly benefited from the nationalism of the of age. representative of the state of Caoa- early 19708,” be says. “But what has “It took two or three hours to djao fiction today,!’ said Eniigb~ the there bea since then7 These are anive at a final decision.” says morning after the judges’ dinner. excellent young writers. sod they Gordon Montador, national director Atwood and Appeldoorn both deserve somerhiag like that.” of the Canadian Book Information declined to discuss their choices, Montador expects some negative Ceotre (CBIC), who hosted the dio- believing that too many questions feedback to the judges’ choices. B.C. ncr. “1 think half the list was fdled by might be asked on who they left oat critics might want to come up with people who had tumid up on all rathei than who they put in. Mon- their own list, and those who bclicve three judges’ lists of finalists. Theo tador insists that the choices were that older titers deserve some pro- there was a lot of ncgotlating - and “inclosive rather than exclusive,” motion might make up a “best oP’ a few very fm statements.” and points out. for iastancc, that list too. “Quail with it, argue with The winners: Sandra Birdsell, both short&ory writ&s and nowlists it, do whatever you want.” be says. Janette Turner Hospital, Susan were eligible to be chosen. “It can only be good for more Cana- Kerslake, Paul Quarrington, Sarah The Idea of 45 Below orlglnated - dii writers if you do.” Sheard, Aritha van Herk, Matt Montador frankly admits he stole it - -RA WADE BOSE

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take it too fer,” says Quauinatou. “but I stili thiuk they’re a -NEW FOR CJSILDREN- cut above people who couldn’t be bothered to begeve in any- thhtg.” CRY TCD TE-liE My npuimce as a writs (Iwo published novels, mixed reviews. modest sales) tells me thal what I should do is pry open NIGHE WHNID Nathanael’s mind. I should meal his tbo~~&ti. as he was no T. Ii. Smith doubt conside& hlr past xi&t that very instant. But my grand- falhcrsysno-andfc.rempbasishcdnmsbiscaneonmy A spinetingling hitotical tabletop. adventure set on the B.C. “why not, you old feeble fool?” coast during the 1790’s. A My grandfatha’s eyes and veins bulge and he says. “Beeewue -” thmugb a denched tooth. Then he relaxer with young boy is kidnapped by P sigh. “kavc ill.2 poor man alone.” local Indians who believe - Home Game he has special powers that enable him to com- of mythic proportion%, so he added a myth-uviker In the form municate with animals. of the narrator’s grandfather, who arrives on his doorstep, sets T. II. Smith has published tire to his half-finished novel (“a tale of sordid sex between more than a dozen non-fiction titles and short stories. In 1983 he was awarded the Order of Canada for his extensive work with children. For ages 8-12. A Viking Kestrel Book 812.95 The Life’of Hope is not Quarrington’s THE DARING second novel. If you count The Service GAME (which he never does), it’s not Kit Pearson even his third. Another manuscript - about an industrial-league goaltender who plays in a never-ending overtime period -: was accepted but shelved after Avon Books suspended its Canadian line a moral dilemma for Elixa. Kit Pearson. a librarian in Vancouver! won third prize in the i98S CBC Literary competition’ for sordid people in sordid plans”), and threatens him until he juvenile fiction. For ages 8-12. A Viking tells tire story. The grandfather may also represent, perhaps Kestrel Book 513.95 unconsciously, the conflicts and difficulties involved in writieg a book. “When I was writing Home Game, I didn’t think much about it,” Quarrhrgton says. But after the fmt book wes THE HphND OIF published, “I sort of suffered badly from the second-novel syndrome.” ROBIN SQUHRES The L&? ofHow is not Quarrinpton’s second novel. If yuu count The Service (which he never does), it’s not even his From the author of Wild third. The Senrin (Coach House Press) tells the story of Man of the Woods. Horace Hod,#bu, a much-affgctcd fellow who unwisely aczcpts a man named A&e’s offer to solve sIi his pmbleuu Joan Clark weaves fact for $50. A third mauuscript, Logcm in Owi&ne - about an and fancy to create Robin IndustriaMeague goaltender who plays iu a never-ending over- Squires, a fictional Engiiti tints period - was accepted by Avon Books but shelved atter boy caught up in the the fm suspended its Canadian line. mysterious events In the meantime, Querriugton had begun a novel about a surrounding the treasure writer (also named Paul) who holes bbnself up in a frieud’s and secret tunnels on Oak house to try to write a novel. “When he gets there he’s writing Island. Now available in for all the wroua ressons,” says Querrbrgton. “A lot of the 10-12. A Puffin PaperIl; book is about his not being able to fun&n while he has adopted thiscynicd,wcdd-wearystance."As hedhcovetsa topic that interests him - tbc life of Joseph BenIon Hope - the narrator says, “I begen to sense that I was being granted a reprieve, that I might yet avoid the fate of bccombrg a TV sit- corn writer or, worse yet. a book reviewer.” Quarrbrgton laughs when reminded of his dip. “Tberr’s a w certaht amount of me havine_. fun.” he ws._ But Ihere is an Penguin Books Canada edge to his voice. In The L@ oJ?Iops. Quarr&ton concentrates on m8kin.g Pbrmanent -@eases@ Introductory Meimbemhlp Offer expect to pay consjdenbly more in 0 Speck11 member’s prices for the l Choose any one of the i~lwtbk xu-es for books of comparable quality 4 books you buy werage 522.19 per worIu shown here at the price listed as 0 xlu sbnply agree to purchase only book @nak S88.76). your bttmduction to membership in the 4 Selections or Altemater tiom hundreds ‘Based on tiI# cunrrnt awnzgeptices. Book-of-theMonth Club 0 Vau would offeted during the ll~t two years including sbIppIng mid bondIi?&

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This major new translation of 13-volumcset~been Prowt’s mldterpiea includes six reproduced in this two. new segments and many other vc4umc Compact Bdi- Passages that war not in the ori- tloaAmagni&ingglass elm1 version. All seven mmts of is blcklded in special rhe work have been combined int slipcase drawer three elegant, boxed volumes. ordinary characters - the regular patrons of a bar’callcd The Willing Mind -seem extraordinary. I suggest to him that such CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR a task might prove more diffti than making the extra- ordinary seem human, 89 be did in Home Game. Quarrington diiagrew politely. “I bclicvc that people don’t need any embellishment,” he says, glanting at a coliplc of patrons argu lng over a sportseaster on the TV above the bar. “If we were to pick any one of these guys and have a long enough diicussion with hi, you’d f& out something. Maybe be was the world champion tlddly-wink player or has visited every country in ‘ihc world, I don’t knoiv. People just aren’t as boring as people like to believe..” ~‘Iiae’s the great Canadian novelistI” roared Ha&. blocking my only avenue of escape. I covered my private parts and made a valiant attempt to smile. - The LiJ2 Qfifope Q”A~RIN~‘ON NOW IS at work on another novel about three male childhood friends, two of whom %mspi~~ to do some- THE LIFE ‘: . . Paul Quark&on u&em a new side show of eccentric characters into the circus tent of Cana- ‘People don’t’need any embellishment. . dian humour writing.” ‘(Brian I2 Joiuwn. Maclean!9) If we were to pick any of these ‘:..oneoftbemastfertleanddeEghifu&twisted guys and have a long enough discussion imaginations in Canadian fiction. . .’ m- Jm=O with him, you’d find out something. ‘:..afrefhandzanywiceintbesometimassom- bm halls of Canadian tktion~’ Maybe he was the world champion (William French, The Glob? and Mail) tlddly-wink player or has visited every @9.95 Doubleday Canada Limited country in the world. People aren’t as boring as people like to believe’ Briarhmi ’ for,,ii: makethe% erence thing lousy b the third later in thclr lives.” Hcis.titing “with BeaLiiver...BeaKidneyVolun~ a renewed sense of vigour these days” since acquiring new prestige as one of the undcr-+S elite. To help support himself, he aJso works in a Toronto book store. where buyers of his novels arc favoured with an autograph. (“The staff Like to stick them in people’s hands.“) What he,would like most is “enough money to buy a big block of time I could wltc in.” Writers deal in time - a Little here, a little there. “1 think as you get older you start to panic,” he says. “Amaicans tend to put out three or four books - you’ve got to make sure that every book counts. British authors. they put out Xl or 30 by the tlmc thcy’rc 50 and sat of go for an average.. We &I Canada] have a choice. I kind of think I’ll p for the average.” Qwningtqn jokes about the power of established, best- selling authors llkc Jama Clavcll (“Pivc mill, that’s what I’m going to ask for next time”) and tells how he and a friend con- side.@ hauling’ out the canvas and brushes when they heard 1 I want to be a Iifesuvcr. Please call mc about that artists attracted more women than writers did. Ptws him 1 volunteer opportunities. about writing as a career. however, and he eonccdes that all I the hours at the type&tcr do mean more to him than mere 0 St&US. “You can have something Icgirimate that you want to say,” he says in his slow voice. “‘I’ve got seven or eight letters from people who seemed genuinely affected by a book of mine. One girl said that before reading Home Game she had felt prclly . pissed off about the way thlls were golug, and now she felt a ;;t&etp;” He pauses. “That tends to make tbiws wortb- Third impressions Ffa mentary and redundant, the final book In 8ertrude Story’s trilog Is incomprehensible without having read the Ylret two By Cary Fagan

The Way Lo Always Dance, by Ger- a victim, and Story has created a trude Story, Thistledown Press, 130 The major events of Alvena’s life-tit modestly memorable chamcter. pages, X20.00 cloth (ISBN 0920066 66 6J are deployed here will be returned to Story was right to return to Alvaa’s and $9.95 paper (ISBN 0 920066 63 8). again end again.in the later books. She cbiklhood in II Never Pays to Laugh It Never Psyh to Lough Too Much, by Too Much, and althougl! there me fewer Gertrude Story, Thistledown Press, 139 &d a prissyj flirktious m&her smiling moments here the storirr are page& $20.00 ck$h (ISBN 0 920066 86 0) (Alvena’ catches her embracing the richer, moslly because of Ahma’s sea- ad S9.W paper (ISBN 0 920066 87 9). pastor). Still a teenager, she moves in sitivity to the strains of a family so close The Need of Wandug Always. by Ger- with ha half-brother. David Schroeder, it borders on the incesmous. Reepmg trude Story, Thistledown Press, 1% pretending to be hi “hired gk1.” track of who’s who isn’t alway* easy, pages, $23.00 cloth (ISBN 0 920633 00 5) Alveaa, not brought up to exprms her and at one point Alveaa says, “So 1 had and $12.95 paper (ISBN 0 920633 01 3). feelings, has a hard time admitting she two Uncle Emils and I even had two loves him, and when she finally can Cousin Emii, too. If Germans lik a THE XRILOCIY PORM is usually associated David accideotly blows his own head off name. bov. almost evervbodv_ _- acts with genre literature such as science So with a shotgun. Theo follows a brief mm& it.“. tion or fantasy. or with autobiographical marriage, an affair wirh a man named A funeral. ao imoovuished girl’s works. each volume corresponding to Joshua, and finally a move Lo the big birthday party, an unde who joins the the early, middle, sod late years of a life. city - Saskatoon. army, an overgmwo schoolboy so horny Aulhors like Robertson Davies who can While the stories drsg somedmes. they he “whumps” other boys against the create an absorbing narralive Line use the can suddenlv tke brbxhtlv. In “The tool shed. But this is always Alvena’s trilogy to extend their stories, stir&g Whitest of &hers” Sam; local boys hook, the story of a young girl who eager readers along from book to book. give David Schroeder a feather, mocking wants to live, to dance. She fmds herself Sometiing mysteriously religious may be his cnwardii for not going oif to fghi drawn to those who break the mm- in the form too. corresponding to the in the war. Smiling, David sdcks the munity rules and aUracted to masculine triptych in visual art. With the publica- feather into hi “big half-b-breed hat.” symbols such as the grrar Uyd&lcp tion of The Need s( Wanting Xhva.vs Story skims over conventional events that walk in and out of the pichw Saskatchewan writer Gertrude, Story like weddings, her attention drawn to Alvena is never able to pull back for a compleres her “Alvena Schroeder .more personal emotional happenings. wider view, but her very ~~arrowaess is trilogy” and proves herself unconeaned When some inremal and subtle change what gives this book its &et power. with most previous notions of the form. takes place, Story f- the momenl. The Need of Wanting Alwys is a Story isn’t eveo writing novels but short summation of sorts, sketchin in the stories. and she uses the trilogy just as it final eveots of Alvma’s lie. Joshua suits her, thank you. remrns, biiagiging along a pregnanl girl- Nol tb.al no discernible form is evident friend. The girl gives birth and abandons in the three books. The Wuy to Alwys the newborn to Al-. only to return Dance (1983) trBee8 Alveds life into five years later wifh a lawyer. (No sur- her 50s. I# Never Pays lo Laugh Too prim here: the &ood things in Alveaa’s Much (1984) backtracks to her child- life always get taken away.) Alvaa hood, and the new book gives us retirm Lo Victoria, takea io as a boarder Alvma’s final years and her death. But I a distant relative nmiled Murray. and suspect that Story, an instinctive rather learns to love the sea. rhan technically sophisticated writer, None of these events is a interest& “ever planned B trilogy; the firar volume as Alvena’s earlier experiences, but had smnds on its own, and the second seems to have sprung from a belated desire to have held tog&?. instead tbhey relive the most resonant moments of Alvena’s (and perhaps Story’s) personal sible withour ha&g reah the eXptiWllXs. books but largely redundant anyway. The Way lo Always Lknce begins Pages and pages are fried witp Alveoa’s Story’s penchant for awkwardly lyrical AIvma’s parents won by her fathec tiresomely rr.petitive memoricr of David, - and impossible to remember - titles “then I raw Mama’s eyea go funny. For Joshua, and her other lost loves. Iialf- such as “What Makes Two, Makes the fmt time ever I saw them lose their way through this book I thought that if Three” and “Too Long, Too Long, No evmythii.” Alvena told how David shot himself Dauce: The voice is unschooled and Alvena’a father dii of cmmer; it once again I would scream. And she did emotional, as if it rose dirretly from the tellit-againaadagaio.Almostas earth tilled by those strict Lutherans kg OII her. Buf Alvena i; wearing is the 16nd of fbazily abstmct

iirr “Y..-,.-: . ..-.-. _. . ,._... . - .--. _- ..-. .--. writing that marred the fii two books off. Unlike Jean Chr&ien, who has demands for parliamentary reform only slightly: become a genuine folk-hero about spring more fmm the inability of Caua- When you were young. yo” was a whom Caua&ans wish to know every- dims to understand the true mle of the wsnter. You had toe many thin@; too thing, Jim Jerome’s personality ami House of Commons as au educational, many wsnui too many words inride the expressive, deliberative chamber that head or hovaing Iii hot honey bea perhaps shquld have bean kepi to a scrutinizes the programs of the govern- around it; too many words telling you minimum. ment and reflects the public mood rather wsnts about l&s. Jerome does better in helping Cana- than a widely held yet incorrect view that Conversations in The Need of Want- dians understand the great, yet often Parliament is govemment itself. . 1nS Ahwys occur mostly between misunderstood institution of Parlia- Instead, Mr. Speaker is one- Alvena and ghosts, usually the late meat. At times he explains the workiigs diimsional and descriptive, rather than David Schroeder. In the earlier books of Parliament in the sort of detail that a coherent exa@aation of the speaker- these visions were mc~re ambiguous, but would do credit :L a high-school Cana- ship in Canada. In writing the book here there is no doubt that they are dian civics text. He has a fondness for Jerome appeals to the few of us who actual souls from the other world. Their the young student, a fact underscored by were associated with his nime in the words, however, are too mundane for his establishi the Darliamantaw intern House, interested in scraps of inside any suspension of disbelief and when program, a v&thy &omplisb&nt. detail, aad perhaps to the curious stu- Murray’s dead father appears to iuslruct Them is more than a little apology in dent who wishes to understand some of-- hi to go back to schcml - wd. that Mr. &waker for decisions taken by the the basics. If he had broadened his seems a bit much. Chair. Frequently, Jerome revcab a approach, he could havq given us a land- Alvena’s earlier determination returns humility bordering on insecurity about mark in the literature of legislative in the tinal stmy; the ghost of David his actions. This is touching but behaviour. I hope he wiIl give us that Schroeder must wwince her to leave her uunece.wary because he was a very good book yet. 0 shrivelled body and become spirit. But Speaker - sensitive, reasonable, in The Need qf iVarzf1ag Always she has rational, and comprehending the largely lost her way. Leaving behind that pxnmture of British parliamentary Saskatchewan soil, Alvena experienca a loss that is just as great, alas, for Ger- Most ‘observers who write about trude Story. 0 Nothing selves served there - do no-t understand the institution or its place in the evolu- ventured tion’of democracy. Jerome does, and that is why this book is a little disap- By Debre Martens pointing. With his talent, insight, and Man about articulateness, Jerome could have writ- 86: Best Casadii Stories, edited by ten a tmly great book. He ptided over David Hdwig arid Sandra Martin, the House a tumultuous time in the House, which Oberon Press, 176 pages; 823.95 cloth saw the rule of law flaunted by arbitrary (ISBN 0 88750 589 9) and $12.95 paper By David Collenette actions of Canada’s security force, the (ISBN 0 88750 590 2). introduction to debate oftelevision, the Coming Attractions 3, edited by Mr. Speaker: The Maa ia the Middle. threat of separation by Quebec, and an David Hdwig aud Sandra Martin, by James J&me, McClelland & assault on parliamenttary priiilege. He Oberon Press, 130 page& 833.95 cloth stewvmt, 175 pages, $19.95 cloth (ISBN 0 could have showp us what Parliament (ISBN 0 88750 591 0) and 912.95baper 7710 4403 8). means to a free society, what a member (ISBN 0 88750 592 9). can accomplish, and how a government A Q”KK LCIOK at the cover and one real- can be held accountable. ~.sv CAM*N smfwis is a safe collw izes that his book is not about the He could_ have helped~. . us resolve. . the. tion; all of the stories am good, though speakership of the House of commons dilemma of ensuring that a muy w~~t~a none of them are surprising. Our liter- in a general sense but about James govemmed, after exhaustive debate, ature seems to have IevelIed off in Jerome and his time ar Speaker. Since can expect that the will of the majotily quality - gone are the low dips of very little has been written about Cana- should prevail in getting its program failure. But gone too are the peaks of dian Speakers, one can applaud Mr. through Parliament, while at the same eximent. Although enjoyable to read. Jerome’s desire to sham his memoirs. time ensuring that same govemment nose of these stmiu left me sq”intiag in Yet the reader is entitled to be disap- does not trample on the rights of the the light of revelation, or breathJess with pointed in that Mr. Speaker is really just minority in beiug heard. Jemme does wonder, or listening to a rewardii that - the memories of one man ra deal with this issue but comea down on who. corded without an iateUectuaUy useful both sides at once - although he does Many inclusions are predictable. conceptual framework. believe that the Opposition should, by “Under the Hill,” a story fmm Marian Politicians invariably write books to obstmctio” of proceedings and sot by Bngd’s The Tattooed Woman. is ensure that evaluations of their careers division of the members. be able to force accompanied by a pmfac+ in her are Ilot left exclusively to historiaus. the government to go to the people. honour. Norma” Levine, W.P. Kimella, They feel a need to “set the record He could have dealt more them& and Joyce Marshall make repeat appear- straight,” to put the best gloss on their caUy with the challenge to padiamentary anew in the series. What is unexpected is achievements and rationalize theL privilege posed by the action of that Jane Rule’s “Duke,” a long pm- failures. Some politicii genuinely try Canada’s security fmx.s and the revela- trait of the art patron as a young to educate the reader, while others sim- tion of information that could come wmnan, marks the fust appearance of ply wish Co sham their experiences. Mr. under the Official Secrets Act. As well, her work in the annual anthology. Justice Jerome tries to achieve each of he could have helped the reader under- To&her the stories cover the range of these goals, but does not quite pull it stand that the real reasons behtid rural, small town, and city settings; the Get it together - Collect Canada

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. . . -_ -_. r . . i _. ..-..: . .._.....,...... --_...._ ___ _ -_ .__ ...... ^ _.A_._...... _. ----- . middle class dombmtep the pages (with contrast, Judith Pond’s’ three few” problems. In Part B, Bllzabetb the exception of “The A&dent,” by stories skilfulIy weigh the gives up her M.A. studies fpr a baby. Sheldon Cunie). balance in relationships. be they as tem- She ~mpanies her husband to the The word “best” has lost its credl- porary as those df a group at a barbecue Arctic and pursues her antbmpologieal bility. Past editors Clark Btaise, John (“Isn’t It Odd”) or as lasting as tbe curiosity and finds that “in the end, tlds Metcalf, and Leon Booke ambitiously family in posttlve attitude proved to be the right included stories that expanded expe- “Tolerance” the analysis of the relation- response.” In the IaPt segment, A&e tieace, stories “not read before”; Mar- uneven might be Elizabeth with her degree, ap tin and Iiehvig modestly publish (as they power struggle in which I was she is a sociologist who haJ left her put it in the 1984 edition) “stories that unhappy marriage. Jobmon’s succinct were written to be read.” Tbis approach dacrlptions of the smells style is refreshing, and the content of her farm life. “Scenu fmm a Pension” by work is thought-provoking. no basement, no stomach-iurching IO& Franca Itani, whose story “Grand- Of the storl*l in 85: Best, the two floorboards) apparently aimed at a dif- - mother” appeared in 84: Best, has the most intriguing new works are about ferent audience from the readers who cold humour of a Mavis Gallant story. separation. Robert 0. Shenin’s “Ma” were challenged by past editors. Itani’s “Clayton” and “Songs for in the Black Magic Box” is an inter- Of the new writers introduced in 85: . Children” are moving explorations of esting collage of stews and images. It is Best and Coming Attmctions. only attitudes to death and the past. atso strikicing that the narrator, in tatkIng Sh& Delany’s WC& in the latter is Unlike Judith Pond’s serious ap- about the male pmtagonist, seems to disappointing. The tendency to tell proach to stereotypes and Carol address the reader: “You are standbtg in rather than show in “At the Pool” Wlndley’s overly familiar theme of the Place du Canada”; “You take a deep results in wndescendlng comments such trapped housewife in %lotbs,” Marion breath.” The disconnection that one as “this oasis of pleasure and innocence Johnson’s “Coming of Age in Canada” feels after a separation is re.presented set in the horrendous lower east side.” in 85: Best is a three-part examination through a” impersonal form of “arm- Her nanator has a remarkable inability antI development of the role of women tic.“. Tbe father is both “you,” awl the to rise above cltche: as she is about tc. today. Her work is Innovative in form man in the photos in the candy box: his have intercourse with the lifeguard, she a”d humorous in tone. Each section in- daughter la introduced as a photograph thinks “Am I another facekss olle i” the cludes dbwive subtitles, dis&imws by in a newspaper; tbe mother is the tall serla of faceless woIne”. . . .” similar- the author, and questions and comments worna” hunched over tbe toilet with ly, “Ferragosto” is a story of an en- after each story. Part A, ‘~Evelyn’s Tan- moml”g sickness. Tbe absence of corn-- eot”tter betwee” a” academic couple and trum,’ is “a short, childish story about a munication among them is reflected by a mlso&st, with state re”utrks such as six-year-old girl named Evelyn” and their obs&on with the boxa of photos “And she talks as well.” about her mother. who has “quite a and letters. an obsession with images.

DIGGING UP THE MOuNTAtNS OUR LADY OF T& SNOWS by Neil Bissoondath by Morley Callaghan MaanillanofCanada Macmillan of Canada

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TORONTO SINCE 1918: TORONTO ARC-: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY ACITYGUIDE by James Lemon by Pat&a McHugh James Lorimer & Cd Mercury Books National Museum of Man The City of Toronto Book Awards consist of $5.000 presented annually to authors of books of literary excellence that am evocative of Toronto. This year’s winner(s), selected fmm the above list, will be announced on Thursday, Februaj 27,1986. I” Douglas Glovcr’s “Dog Attempts According to newspaper reports. most see the transition in Cohen’s book from to Dmw” Man-i” Saskatoo”.” the “ar- U.S. mlulonairea got thcrc by many ‘the story of a family to tbc story of a rator’s inability to accept his &fee. Lucy, years’ hard work supplying the publlc family business. as she is and his guilt about leaving her with everyday items, and most of these The best of these books is Grcacoc and arc brought out when he imagines manufacturers remain dctemdnedly Cruise’s. They have written prpfdcs of himself drowning while Lucy @cs to middleclass. 15 Western Canadian self-made war” him - as had the dog that is falsely As it happened, I’ve interviewed John mllli0”ai1ca. we meet, for cxamplc, accused of ttyi”g to drown its. owner. Buhle~, one of the subj&. of The John Doole. owner of Winnipeg’s Glovcr also depahp from co”ventio”al Money Rusth, by Paul Grcscoe and laracst lndeuendcnt buildfnn materials story narrative, taking many runs at the David Cruisb. Buhler’s “office,” a supplier and residential mechanical oer- story with fragment after fragment. I mom little larger than a closet, was fur- vices company. Doolc is also% musician. find Glovcr’s style, however, too heavily nished with a bridge table, a few files, artist, and, most rcccntly, has bought sclf-mnscious, with the repetition of three or four chairs, a” old cabinet, and and rc-opcned Mary Scorer Books, Win- “this is not the story I wanted to tclI” a bottled ship. A short man in rumpled nipeg’s largest indcpcndeiu book store. and with other interruptions such as “an clothes. he may not Jook the part, but he Then there is Alberta oilman Nick apology for my style.” Innovators is highly successful. Taylor, atidonado of classic English should never apologize. 0 Albert Cohen of General Diitributors literature and lost causes such BP Albcr- (Gcndii in the title) - constantly on La’s Liberal Party (which he leads). We the lookout for the idea, the one ldgli- arc told about the time colourful Van- quality product that would propel the eouvcr re%aurantcur Umberto Mcnghi family business to success. He found it fired all the staff at one of hi cxpensivc fvst in the Paper-Mate pen in the 1950s West Coast eat&s an hour b&ore Money talks andlatcrinsony. Hcwasonc~ofthef~t opening time and turned the potential North Am&a” businessmen to see tltc disaster into a arand oart~. B.C. & By Myron Love potential for Japancac technology on the tronics and corn&r &lz job” S. Mac- North Amcrlcan mark& Donald courted fmancial dlsastcr for his The Wtrepnmws is the story of the worldwide multi-million-dollar business The Rntreprcncun: The Story of Gsndis Inc., by Albcrt D. Cohen, MO- Cohen family. who started in Winnipeg until he rcallzed he was a betta scientist as travclling-s&men 55 years ago and than businessman and passed the rcbu Clclland & Stcwar& 212 pages, $19.95 today own SAAN Stores, Mctmpolltan of day-to-day mmagcmcnt to somconc cloth (ISBN 0 7710 21860). Stores, and Greenberg Stores and atz the else. The Money Rustlers: Self-Made dlsuibutors for all of Sony’s consumer It is intcrcstlng to note that no women Mllllo”nbcs of the New West, by Paul products in Canada. nor mbody from Saskatchewan arc Grcscoe and David Cmlsc, Pm@“, 288 The third of six brothem, Albert reprcsentcd Bmong the “rustlers.” The _.pages, 519.95 cloth (ISBN 0 670 80207 Cohen would seem to be the driving authors’ criteria were that their subjects force in the growth of the business. As be self-made ndllionairrr who own their Money Makers: The Seer&s of Canada’s Most Successful Entrc- he explains, having a good product is one thii; selling tbe public on it iv that thcrc arc many kti& now in prcncua, by Kenneth Barnes and something else. The selling concept business in watcm Canada. none yet Everett Banning, McClelland &Stewart. Cohen learned from Paper-Mate and qualify as self-made ndllio”&+ As for 240 pages, 524.95 cloth (ISBN 0 7710 passes on to his readers.is that of the Saskatchewan, it Is a province tradi- 1047 8). “triangle of success.” Quality is one tionally more inclined to cooperation point of the triangle. To make it work than individualism. named Ira. It was sp&g. The year - though you also ncbd saturation advcr- Although not all of the rustlers are as almost over and the summer job pms- tlsia and widespread distribution. multi-facctcd as Taylor and Doole, and pccts wcrc as dismal as cvcr. ha, how- Cohen offers-many insights into the the section on the Ghumezlan family cvcr. was”? worried. He already had combination of honour and ruthlessness ftbev of the monstrous West Edmonton three job offers. in the business world and exami”& the &I&) suffers somewhat from lack of Now, ha was not a” entrcprencur, but differences in buslncss pracdccs between hard -facts available about the family he illustrated some of the breed’s members, this book ls worth the prlcc of chanxteristlcs: ~o”fldencc, a dcgrce in adtnlssld”. hustle, and a willI”gncss to work, no Money h&km suffas by comparison matter what tbc job, to achieve his fpcrhaps because outlaws are_nmrc cx- &W.lS. citiillg). Barnes and Banning have contrary to N”m”r, c”trcp~“curshlp attempted to write more of a how-to is thrlvine in Canada. Yes. there are oco- plc in tb& supposedly &tious mu&y no slmpk fomudaio success. who arc willing to take risks with thclr The book Is nmst useful for prospee- life savings and invest in themselves. tive cntrcprcneun in listing maxims such These three books prcscnt us with as “thcrc arc no rulca,“~“challmge the almost 60 cxamplcs of Canadians who status quo,” “embrace nsk and defy the started with nothing more than an idea, odds,” and “fear not faihuc.” .Thc a dream, and a’ small loan. North America and Japan. But he is a W-page conclusion discusses in detail We’re not talking about overnight better businessman than he is a writer. how to go about becoming a su&.cssful millionaires or get-richquick schrmcs. His “I answcrcd, then he answered, then cntrcprencur; which government agm- As Kcnncth Barnes and Bverctt Banning I answered” form of dialogue is atik- cles are available to help; how to raise poinr out in Money Makers, a hut for ward, and he tends to be rcpetitivc: “We money, hire labour, and fmrc out pro-, money or compulsion for power arc not arc six bmthers in four cities” appears vincisl tax laws. But there arc too many the marks of a successful businewnan. sevemJ times. What is interesting is to examples of sueecssfid entrcprcncurs, most of them uninteresttng. The authors . momlity were shattered and social chaos for the neat thousand years.” He also also o”eNse - gratingly- the phrase loomed ahead. believed that Bacon wrote Shakesware. “money maker.” The message that In The RcgonemIors Ramsay Cook What Bucke was trying to do 1 like comes through to this book is that aay- assembles and &aminw the effects of William James md others at the time - one with a good idea and a little spuok this on many such people in one comer was to apply scientific method to can succeed in business ia Canada - of the Protestant world. English r&lolls experience, to tcconcite science except governmeat. Canada, and traces how they issued la and religion. That was what was hap- By tbe way, the last I heard of Ira, he such varied respooses as the single-tax pening also in the spread of spiritualism. was happily eoreonced as principal of a movement, spiritwllsm, and the soctal IL’S easy to dismiss this as a nutty fad school io i’Jorthem Manitoba. Cl gospel of J.S. Woodsworth. The title exploited by charlatans - which it is; but it is also a serlous attempt to use tion” and ils cognates, until th& used experimental methods to investigate the mainly ia a reltgiius sensa (“being born question of immortality. That makes its e) or in physiology (the regenera- appeal in the late 19th century pafectty tion of tissue) came lnaeasi& to be underrtandable, and helps to accaunt used in the sense of social salvation. for its acceptance by intelltgeat people The quotations in the OED bear this like Conao Doyle. sake ’ out; and one dated 1861 is in fact fmm In this contact, Mackenzie King can Goldwin Smith, one of Cook’s principal be aUowed to rcvcrt to what he in fact By I.M. Owen characters. smith. whose own Rligiom was - a somewhat commonplace man COdviCtiOos stem to have beeo minimal, of his time, rather than the closet weirdo he Regenemtoa: Social CrMcLtm In was convinced that so& had always Late Victorian Bngltsh Canada, by Ram- bmkeo down in ages of religious skepti- be. Cook’s treatment of him is a say Cook, Uoiversity of Toronto Press, cism, and that this time capitatism itself welcome return to the real King. The 301 pages, $32.00 cloth QSBN 0 8OXl was threatened: “secularism among earnestly platitudinous quotations from 5670 9) and $15.95 paper (lSBN 0 8020 mechanics . . . is likely sooo to breed his diary show him as a typical end- 6609 7). muttnow quutionings about the present product of the turmoil of the generation social order among those who get the that preceded him. aspiring to be “a z-m OREEK RCM of OUT word %tbics” poorer share, and who can no longer bq political leader who vdll be a true servant and the Latin root of our word appeased by pmmlsw of compensation of God, helpiog to make the Kingdom of “morals” both meant “the things that ia another world” - a blunt expression Heaven prevail on earth.” We who in- are customary.” The implication is that of the attitude satirized la the Wobbly herit the Mackenzie Kingdom are quite to the ancleat Greeks and Romaos the song. justitied in smiling at that; but it’s the rules of good behaviour, which made it Work and&% II&~ on hays way tbe dominant minds thought when possible for people to live together in an You’ll get pie, in the sic4 King was a student. ordered society, were man-made and Whea you die - Cook could have made this book more hence subject to chsnge by consensus. IIS 0 lie1 But when Cbrlstianity arrived in Bumpe Then there was J.W. Beogough, the he bad ylel&d to the temptad&.to make it brought v&h it the Jewish Creator editor of Grip. whose crude hut merry at the expense of these earnest God, who had made the rules. de historlcauy &rest& carmoosiuustrate characters. To his aedtt. mough his lip man&d obedience to them, and pm- this book effectively. Bengough totally inevitably hvltches from time to time, he vided a rule-book. Virtue, then, was rejected Danvinism, and took refuge hap done his beat to tn?at them with defied from ctemity, and a main fuoc- from it in sabbatmianism, prohibition. respect and present their thtnking to their tion of ret&ion was to enforce it by and that curious nostrum of the age. tlie ovm tenus. It can’t have been easy. 0 threats of eternal plmi5hment. single Tax. I’ll never understand why Protestautism lo its various fonac the docttine of Henry aeorge had such emphasized the moralistic side of appeal, based as it was on, the *lea that religion even more heavily tbai~ the “the private ownership of land has been medieval church bad (none more heavily the great cause of serfdom” - in the than Presbyterianism, though its basic very age when possession of land had Bsm again Calvinistic doctrine asserted that virtue been deftitlvely replaced by the posse.+ wouldn’t get you anywhere). By tbe 19tb sion of facto&% as the principal source By Phil Hail x century, among Protestants, the sacm- of wealth and power. ,ments !VeTx a minor part of corporate One who totally accepted evolution, The Glass Air: Selected Poems, by worsblp; the main purpose of cbwch- though not in its Darwinian form, was P.K. Page. Oxford, 191 pages. 811.95 going was to get a weekly remindex from R.M. Bucke. aa “alienist” - aspaper(ISBN 0 19 54050506 4). a preacher of how you ought to hihave. were called before Theo two alarming thiigs happened. psychiatry was invented. The doctrine he THB IMPORTANCE of this book, its The “higher altics” appeared, eaam- Consciousnes: luminbus eaactness, knocks all the ining the Bible as an ordinary piece of “that the Cosmos is not dead matter but reviewer-clev~s out of me. And literature composed by fallible human s living Presence. that the soul of man is gladly so. This is a most whole. beings; and Darwin io The Origin qf immortal, that . . . all thins work generous, and~optlmlsti~ book. We am Species (1859) and still more shockingly together for the good of each and all. given all the poems Page wants to bring in The Decent ofMc?n (1871) offered a that the foundation principle of the forward from previous books to addt- reasoned scientlfa alternative to the world is what we call love and that the tion to, by my count, 32 new poems, biblical account of creation. To many happiness of everyone is in the long run nine drawings also by Page (who signs thinking people brought up in the uo- absolutely certain.” He worshlpped her visual art P.K. Irwin), and hvo questioning acceptance of scriptural Walt Whitman, whose collected works disarming, sprightly essays about craft he described as “the bible of the future and tbe pm- of the poet. The essays are disnouing because Page thatantboloairts the have tended to is talking about her development to a turn.. tender(“Theh&y Page with point at which her writing stopped. But Fists was gaul’d;/And he was gifted she is not talking about w&r’s block. most who loudest bawled” - Drydm.) MOVING? Hers is a success story - the book is a In her last essay. at the very end of success story. For what Page chronicles, The Glass Air, Page asks herself and her Please give us six weeks in the two essays and in any of the reader whether the most recent poems advance notice if possible. poems, is her overthrow of “the tyranny printed here are “any advance over the Enclose the Books in of subjectivity.” The writer bEcomes earlier work,” and whether perhaps the visual artist, magician; opaque bewmes writing has started again. She leavea me Canada mailii label translucent. After years out of Canada, with affirmations and hopes. The G/ax gi+g your old address stunned by Brazil’s luscious light and Alphas been su well and fully r&l&l then by Mexim’s primitive darkness, that Page’s progress and sueeesses and write your new Page speaks of ha return to Canada as should have rightful, hiihr profiles in address in the spat+ below. the “start of a new day.” the future. I- The famous, much anthologized early I cau’t resist ending with a quote from poems are all here, weighty and formal my favourite of the new poems (“The in the book’s first section of poems from New Bicycle”): 1944 to 1954. They share the technique How mall adapt ours&es of focuring’on and really doing a subject lo the new biqvck for everything it is worth symbdicalIy. aglow In rhe~urnace mqm. They r&cc bolh Yeats’s strong in- turquobz whea turquoise fluence on poets during the 1940s and has newr b&m lnen seen, the social events and cuncems of their its chmme gknming day (the Spanish Civil War, “Blection 011 gears and &uls, its spokes gllrlenlng. Day,” oftice politics, and poetics). HereI’ Lightly #wing on the inked is a sample from “Virgin”: rubber of Us airy tins By the sun, by tbe sudden jluny i! has thawed us all. 0 of binis In a flock, or by love’s ghost md the lmaglned guut - Water and oceau imagery dominate, seconded by flowers, snow, birds, close and conmmn images that even in these rigid early poems never quite settle, ---__ never quite stop vibrating. Wit and Name I attention make the cage dsuce. And it is New address this dance that Pa8e has been quietly l3y Mery Alnslfe Smith following for 40 yesrs. The result is a poetry more personal, postal cc& quicker, lighter (in both senses). None of 8omery, Volume 1: 1889-1910. edited by the wit or attention has been lost, but Mary Rubio and Blisabeth Waterston, I: * + * nov: Page speaks of ‘~spontsneous Oxford, illustrated, 424 pages, 824.95 involvement.” Ha last book, Evening cloth (ISBN 0 19 540503 X). Is il time Lo renew your Dance of the Grey Flier, by its title subscription? Tick the alone, told of the new emphasis that is As em POP”L..U~‘~ of the recent CBC appropriate boa below. A one also hue in her paintings and drawings TV dramatization of Anne of Gmn year subscription in Canada is of moorl-xasy plant forms: “garden Gables his shown, L.M. Montgomery &&~ted, geometry awash -I’ (“After has meant, and coptiuues to meau, a $14.95. Outside Canada - 1. great deal to many people. Certainly the $17.95. This is ss if a new poet/new artist were world is full of much mure intellectually born. Except that there is a direct con- challenging writing. but Montgomery’s 0 Renewal nection between the preoccupations of 0 New subscription the early poems and the revelations of good humour. and security they evoke. tbe later ones. A vague, mannered They are comforting books, because 0 Payment enclosed morse hss been ousted by inner am- although they may deal with such 0 Bill ma meut. The early caustic quotables about reditia as separation. loneliness, and people and things wdl observed have death, they all haye happy endings. Name become questions about the bnticate Montgomery’s books were loved from Address methods of self and self-expression: the beginning. She gained considerable “Shall I break the bones of my head/in fame during ha lifetime - Anne of a nutcracker?” (“Concentration”). Green Gables, her fust novel, publihed portal code Page has moved from pride to awe. in 1908, was an American best-seller. And all this has been so quietly accum- She published 19 more novels before her Mail to: Book8 plished that we have run the risk of miss- death at the age of 67 in 1942. and since in Canada, ing it. Page wou a Governor Generd’s that time interest iu her life aud in her 366 Adelaide Street E., Toronto, Award (for The M&l and the Flower) books seems scarcdy to have abated. Dntario M5A 3X9 Canada as far back as 1954, sad it is to the Moutgomexy hav proven tu be the earlier poet and poems (good poems) ideal subject for reseamh. She wmte vast numbers of letters maay of which have by Montgomery over a 3%year period to * young farmer, the SO” lo 011e of the bee” prrserved. She kept scmpbooks, her favourite correspondent, G.B. Mm households where she boarded as a made amtotated lists of the books she Millaa of Alloa, Scotland. . teacher. He returned the affection. but bad read, recorded the stories and But certainly the journals tell us a Montgomery, in spite of her feelings for poems she bad written and the details of mat deal about tbe woman herself. him, was convinced that they were “ot her success in getting them published. When Montgomery began thun. she was suff&“Uy comptsble intellectually for Most important, she chronicled more a school girl of 14, bright, inquisitive, a happy marriage, and so she did not tbsn 50 years of her life in ha jo”mals. and appealing. Her mother died when allow the relatloaship to develop. The These journals,, 10 large ledgers coo- Montgomery was a baby, and her father passagrr describing her internal contllct taiaing almost two million hand-written soon after moved west, leaving his between passion ami reason are the most words, were acquired in 1981. along with daughter in Cavendish, P.E.I.. to be moving lo tbls volume. Montgomery’s other papers, by the ralsd by her material grandparents. In 1898 her grandfather died and University of Guelph. Although public Later in her journals, Montgomery Montgomery returned to Cavendlsb to afeess has been restricted until 1992, writes that they were strict and “mea- stay with her grandmother. With the Mary Rubio and Ellaabetb Watersto” sonable in their expectations df her as a exception of mi interlude of several have prepared and published a selection child, but her early enties do not reveal months when she worked as a pmof- of the journals, cova Montgommy’s this. In fact, the main impression they reader for the Halifax Echo, she stayed life in Prioce Edward Island until 8% is of a girl who enjoyed life to the in Cavendish until 1911, when her a?pm%lmat”y a year before her mar- full, loved to be with bei frie”ds,.aod grandmother died at 87. Duty, tral”b& ;oxgx;x~oa she moved wth her husband revelled in all the so&l fuactioos that sod circumstance compelled her to stay rural P.B.I. had to offer. while ha youth passed, her friends mar- This fmt volume malres fascinating At 16, Montgomery went for an ried and moved away, and her grand- reading, although not nmarlly for the unhappy year to stay wltb her father and mother became increasingly petulant , lnfonnation it contains. Readers have his second wife in P&x Albert. Iiomb and diffiiult to Live with. Her joumab already had the opportunity to learn sickness brought her back to P.&I., for these years reveal a desperately lonr many details of Montgomery% private where she studied for her tea&a’s cer- ly woman whose frustrations. caused life from previously published work. titivate. She speot several yaus in small puiods of deep and morbid depression. most notably Mo8ie’Gilla’s biography, communities teacbllg school, inter- But while these years were painful and The Wheel of Things (Fit7.b~ & rupted by one year at Dalhousie, where tedious, they were not uoeve”tfol. Whit&de, 1975) and Mu Dwr Mr. M. she took special courses in literature. Montgomery kept at her work aod gain- (McGraw-Hill Ryerso”, 1980). a collec- She had several unhappy encounters ed more and more recogobion. It !vas in tion, edited by Francis W.P. Bolger and with love during thl time. The most Cavendlsh that she wrote Anne of Onen Elizebeth R. Bppery. of letters written unsettling was a pUlo”ate attraction to Gables and learned of its suuc~e;rs. Also during this period, she became engaged to the Rev. Bwa” Maedonald, the man “. . Jocated in the heartland of Greene’s best writing. ‘* she eveotually married after her grand- moth&s death. And she did love Cavea- -Maclean ‘s .dish, delighting in its woods, fields, orchards. and seashore. Still, she appar- eotly felt, at least in the darker momepts when she needed to confide in ha jour- THE nals, that life had cheated hex of happi- ness. The question remains how much of hexself Montgomery actually revealed lo thue journals. I” 1919 she recopied her TENTHMAN early journals into the ledgers that the University of Guelph evatually BE- quired, and destroyed the originals. She Graham. Greene was by this time a famous w&an and certainly aware that all her wrlw might be of future interest. But whatever “A vintage Greene thriller... relentlcsa in suspense...” the degee of accuracy and objectivity, -The Village Voice some of the entries seem to delve so deeply into the soul of their author that A smoothly plotted psychological thriller. The Tenlh Mm was written they present a portrait of a woman much more complex sod interesting tbs.” any by Greham Greene in 1944 while under contract to Metro-Gol&vyn- of the charact& she created. Mayer. Penguin Books is pleased to present its first paperback The journals alw hold interest as publication, with a new introduction by the author. $4.50 documam of social history. They clearly reveal the restrictions and bonds placed on women of that rime. In one Match wits with Brian.Line.heu, and win a complete set of passage, Montgomery presmts. quite Graham Greene papertiacks. Details at your local bookstore. - cold-bloodedly, her reasons for decldl”g to many 6wan Macdonald. She admits that &bough she is very fond of him, she hns ceased to hope formarriage to a Penguin Books Canada man she cao love intensely. She balances 0 ha longing for a home of her arm. corn- paniouship, and children wltb the possi- true, for at bottom are the very people In Britain, when Parliament is bilitv of loslne her freedom in a union ‘he malntaim wield iacredibIe power - supreme irnd. secrecy is at the core d froi &ch sh; could not escape, even if “the kind of power that’s the envy of all power, the role of the press is more an it proved unma.genial. When we con- politicians and politIcal f@ures . . . the adversarial one. Each paper has its own sider that Montgomery saw as the only potential to detentdue the nahxe of our ldeologlcal bent, thus “brand loyalty ia likely alternative to marlage * lonely political dialogue.” newspaper consumption can even be existence in some boarding-house ia Powerful as he portrays the role of the used as a guide to predict the political Charlottetown, cburain~ out pal-boilers pundits to be, he’s harsh in his assess- persuasion of the reader.” Tataryn for a living, we can understand her meat of tit& fitness to the task: “It’s explains. “At its worst, British jaw motiwtion. doubtful whet&r there exists, in say aalism shamelessly distorts evmts in unlike her fKtiOml creations, Mont- country, a handful of writers with a truly favor of preferred ideological Inter- gomery’s life apparently did not have a wortbwbile opinion to share wit!4 the ptxtations. At its bet, it allows waders happy eadii. We know that her mar- world each and every day.” As for the. to bounce interpretations of what’s hap- riage brought her more CNshii respon- longevity of their opinions, he wtltes: pening off a reco&able imdlech~al sibillties and pain. Montgomery’s own “In reaIity. of cotuse, pundiby enjoys framework.” acount of this later part of her life wlU the intellaual llr expectamy Of a IttCmada,hometoanadversariaI~ appear in the subsequent volumes of her delicate lace hanky in a tt.wee-aIarm fw, system similar to Britain’s, journalists journals, which Rubio and Waterston the Sustaining abiJity of a croissant %tt’t f&we out whether to play the are now preparing for publication. 0 breakfast as preparation for a day of mle &wIoped for the press in the heavy labour.” Is Tatarya being flip? American republic or the one that More likely he’s issuing a warning. If, British journalists have settled into.” as he contends, “today’s dtizm has little Our “schimphreaic media,” as he puts choice but to fortit his views on what he it, don’t attract aS much prestige or deti- reads, hears and sees from the media,” sion as their munterparts. In fact, they Prophets tlte poll&xl columnist, through the don’t even gamer much la the way of quality of his syndicated opinions, doea tecogaitioa. This book is a cass la point, and loss indeed set tlte tone of political dialogue Says Tataryn: “No for&n columaist in- - “whether it’s banal or perceptive, terviewed for tIds work could name, or By Judy Margolis abceptiw or qtlestioning. focused or remember r&ii, a Canadian colum- philosophical, Ideological or coatlict nist.” The Pundits, by Lloyd Tatmyn, free. ypt maay journalists argue that C%bt.g the predilection of our pundits Deaeau, 198 pa&%, $19.95 cloth (ISBN 0 they don’t inake news; they simply to make more of poIitica1 personaIities 68879 123 2). report wetus as they unfold.” than .&as, he dismisses their efforts a.9 Politicians, says Tataryn, “have hopelessly second-rate, drawing into die r.t”waAKEt& oPtNIot+MoNoI?rls, pon- always been acutely aware ‘of the for- debate the likes of Rlcbard Gwya, . tlticating soothsayels, media megamP midable ability of the medium to Dalton Camp, Douglas I3she.r. George - call the political wlmmists. the lnflumce the political agmda and mm- Bldn, Barbara Amid, Peter Worthlng- instant analysts you down with your plicate the prevailing social and political ton, Anthony Westell, and Jeffrey momiag coffee, by whatever name you order. In politics. medii conteat cm be Simpson. (Many of these and other in- like. Investigative journalist Lloyd aiticab change it aad people’s petrep- tetviews that make up a good part of this Tatarya chooses the term “pundit” to t&s and politics will also change.” book were originally conducted for a serve as the fdter on the rather wide- Therefore, it is important, he says, “to se&3 of documeatatia for the CBC an&eIeasheusestopeeratsomeofthe examine what sort of simplified world Radio promm, fdazs) more le@adruy (Walter Llppmaaa) aad, has floated our way, tbmugb the media Auan Fotheringham and Charles in his opinion, not-so-legendary exam- for “I to aeecpt, along with the fi1terin.g Lynch (both of whom were also inter- ples of their number. system that has been used to sort and viewed) come iwfor more thaII tbeir fair Throwh that lens he looks at how the c”tegorlze events.” shaze of crltlcism. Tataryn assails them, columnists’ profession emerged: “their TIE U.S., with its divlslon of powas, among others, for belag “deddedly fIip, influence on journalism . . . impact cm “its IncredIble openness, its freedom nonchalamly discursive, and hardly in- their cdleagua. the politicians tltey with oftkdal governmmt information, as telIechmlly rigorous. Negativism for negativism’s sake aboundr. political tuait~ their EolumM offer of tran&tiag has prod&d a s&g m%ioaal p&s gossip is their staple, and personalities their views into public opinion.” Aad whose eolumaists take aa active part in are their main course. Policy analysis the lens.is as broad in its sweep as it is the poutical process. The only difficulty, , and political ideas are secondary wide: it spans the United States. Britain. says Tatann, “is that in asystem that is matters.” aad Canada lin that orderk the mlitical so mutually manipulative and interde: It is in rapier-like episodes like these institutions, SC&l systems, ai? &c.ss pmdmt, the lines between the two sides that Tataryn comes closest to losing traditions of eaclx aada lot of bistorv - sight of bls main quarry and to resem- from the 1800s td the &sent. - much so, that withoutYprogmm, it’s bllag tite columnists he so dispatages. From that vantage point, it’s not diffi- almost impossible to tell the joumallst That Canadians have not geae.raU~ hem cult’to see that Tataryn is more inter- players ia the govemmmtal game from well-%%ved by their pundits is due to the ested in the big picture., as it shapes the the Iegislators.” absence of a strong body of natlonally personalities of our.political cootmen- syndicated columnists, primarily tators. than he is in Ute persoaalitics because there is little la the wy of a na- themselves. But with his overarch@ tionai aewspaper system to serve as a theories, he runs a risk similar to the forum for them. As for Tataryn’s con- high diver about to leap into a pinprick tention that we only take our polit&s as of a pool. It’s a long way down, so his seriously as our pundits d&, In that he may be tight. q . imagination7 The liteerary critic, of coarse: “the detached spe*ator . . . the Northrop m A Vtslo” of the New Aristotelian citizen most ready to govern After bt Days, by Keith Harrison, WarId, by David Cook. New World a”dtobeNled”Sweemess end light7 Piddlehead Books/Goose Lane Bdi- P~spectives (Oxford). illustrated, 122 Cook is invakably fair and generous tions. 127 pages, S7.95 paper (ISBN 0 pages, S19.95 cloth (ISBN 0 920393 12 8) to Frye. No Marxist, he does not “se 86492 070 9). and $7.95 paper 0 970393 10 1). Frye’s liberal compromises to deride him. A good post-structtxaliit, Cook By Douglas Malcolm By Lorne Ellaschuk knows the most htemting aspect of any rtits NOVEL tak& place during six winter FRYI+ U&ED TO be known as the taaono- theory (social, politic& literary) is its in- days in the intertwined lives of two “list of litemtam, a Lbmaaas intent 0” soluble para$aes. 0 Montreal coupler. Daniel and Sarah and Warren and Annie, the four of whom &i&m with a scieatitic system. He was altematc.Iy narrate its 12 brief chapters later see” (mostly in the United States) in a series of brisk interior monologues. as a nearly home-gmwn structuralist and Spadina Avenue, by Rosemary Harrison’s artful rendering of his char- . cm certai” Canadian litemy and in- Donegan. Douglas & McIntym. illus- acted thoughts as they go about their tellectual circles) as a near-Goethe trated, 192 pages, $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0 everyday lives is at ones ente&hdng and f.gure. it would “ow appear that he is 88894 472 1). entirely mnvincbtg. the last defender of liberalism in a The six days, of comse, were “ot technologiaed society, Matthew Arnold By Roger &Ul chosen arbitrarily. Sarah suspects Dan mtmned in the New World, or a twin of nits BOOK ALMOST works. Based o” a of infidelity, 0114 she blames Annie Lionel Trilling strayed north. This is. at 1984 photo eahibitto”, the book argues, rather than the real culprit, Dan’s least, the impression give” by’ David more thmugh show than tell, that ths secretary. Needless to say, her doubts Cook in thii interesting recent addition prominent street has always been a” a”d Dan’s deceptions cause a”xieties to the New World Perspectives series. anomaly in Toronto’s staid grid -. and that have repercussions in Annie and Cook, a University of Toronto shows ewry sign of co”tbmbIg that role. Warren’s l&s. The lurking tensions political theorist, looks at P&s social Rick Salutin’s lively menmir of the eventually erupt at a yuppie dinner paxty criticis”~ and describes it in a somewhat street and its important role as a focus of (Warren prepares shrimp-stuffed dizzying post-structuralist style. the Jewish gammnt trade., in which his shrimp) that turns sour. Liberalism is posited as a paradox: com- family played a part, is informative and ~erSixL@sisUawedbyitsextmme plete fmedom with complete equality. engaging. Equally effective is the idea, in shortness. Almost half its pages are gob- Begbming with this impossibility and the a picture .book, of incorporating ‘a bled up with chapter headings and direr- necessarily weak comoromise of some photo-frieze of the contemporary street tivg informing us of the day and whose freedom with some - equality, Cook rmmbtg along the bottom of most pages thoughts are to follow. With the possible and giving street numbers. Thii device exception of Sarah, who is mom stridmt I’ allows a reader to locate oth61 historical than the others, the characters do not photos quickly in their modem setting, anerga ‘as distinct voices. The reader and it forms a” important archival skims pleasantly along on the surface of recmd itself. thetr minds but is not given enough There is much tine, although impres- background to understand them fXly. sioniitic, social history in these well- One is left not rea$mring if these’two chosen photos, and Donegan is good at ~~~gsurvive or become divorce peeling back the athnic layers of the street as it has been occupied by one i”““iia”t gm”P after another. The role of Spadina as one of the muscular cen- Canadian Short Stories, Fourth ’ heads off in search of tier liberal tres of the Canadian workbtg class is felt Saries, edited by Robert Weaver, paradoxes and their Frye compromises. particularly strongly throughout. Oxford, 275 pages, $10.95 paper (ISBN A single example: the liberal imagina- The book; like the street itself, 0 19 540502 1). tion.‘in its choi& between the unique changes chata-.ctu north of College. The creative vision (Blake, for example) and frieze peters out along the stretch nmth By Allan Weiss the sensual world (Locke and the scien- to Bloor (called Broadway) and little WBERT WEAVERS ROLE as Canada’s tists). comprmnises in somethii Fiya attempt is made to mmlyss the kii leading popularizer of the short story designates as “eductited” or impact of the University of Toronto on has bee” acknowledged by critics and “recreative.” It holds in tension the mad that region’s formerly gantsel character. authors alike. Since 1932 he has show- poet and the mad scientist’s worlds. Unforhmat~ly, the bbok cnncludu with cased the work of established and Who best parsessa the “recreative” a pedestrian account of the Spadina emu&g short-story writers, pmvidi”g expressway co”trovusy and the curious them with a much wider audience printing of a stray photo from Spadina through his anthologias (and the MW- Road (as the artery is know” north’ of defunct weekly CBC-Radio pmgra”~ Bloor). Purists will quibble. A little Antlrol0g.Y) tha?l they “light otherwise more attention in these northerly have enjoyed. latitudes would have made a good book Weavds fourth volmne i” this series into a” excellent one. Cl maintabw the standards set by the earlier The New Press Anthology 2: Bert ly high quality, from Margaret For a little more or&al sin in the & Storks, edited by Leon Rooke and John , Atwood’s exploration of female role sent gmemtlon and a little less in the Metcalf, General. 260 pages, $5.95 ._. playing in “The Salt Garden” to Helen rust. 0 paper (ISBN 0 7736 71048). _ ..- I Welnzwelg’s fugue-like deplltlon of a y. .,--- , dlrectlooless affair, “What’s Happened By Nancl Wh/ie .:: ,. to Ravel’s Bolero?” The Last &ho, by Byrna Barclay, ?.mc.4u mm Rocm edited the New _:I The aotbology Is dominated by such Newest Press, 157 pages, $19.95 cloth Pre.w Anrhoiogy 1: Best Canadian Short familiar names BS AlIce Mumo. Normao (ISBN 0 920316 94 8) and g7.95 paper Ficdon. This couection of 22 “‘pieces” Levine, Mavis Gallant, and Joyce Mar- (ISBNO920316921). by 16 authors Is hailed In the title simply shall, but also Includes such younger as “stories.” However, all the.semsmic writers as Guy Vanderbaeghe and Nell By Janet Windaler disguises in the nation can’t escape the Rlssoondath. One might find fault with THB SECOND NOVEI. in the projected fact that these are short stories and must its range.: no French-Caoadll writers stand or fall according to some critical are included (even in translation) nor, voyage %J the lives of the Inhabitants standards of style. structure, cnntent, apart from Leon Rooke’s “A Bolt of of a small Swedish village in the late 19th bn~inatlon, and control of subject and White Cloth,” are there examples of the century. Per Lundahl carves music post-modernist or magic-realist writing boxes out of magic hazelwood; his wife Presumably rejecting EM. For&r’s that Weave mentions in his introdue Haana’ devotes her energies to snaring formulation that “the short story is a tioo. Nevertheless. as a reflection of husbaads for their four daughters and serlas of events arranged In tbelr time se- current work in the mainstream of boiling up soap of a fearfully g!amdar queocc,” the editors have hem “looklog Eoglish-Canadian short-story writlag, consisteacy. When Arvid Bjornsson, a for lo assembling this annual collection tbls anthology is an excellent addition to nortbbmda “versed in lltemture” and . . . work that cao change your lives.” Weaver’s already vast contribution to “smooth with words,” suddenly leaves As for the “Canadiao” part of tbe for- thegew..cl the village, breaking a promise to the mula, that vermiform container Is brst idealistic young Johanna Lundahl left alone or restricted to the insight pm without an exolanatlon. she withdraws. vided by Mavls Gallant in her intmdue- Eye of the Fat& by David Williams. disillusioned, b a b&tower aloog tb; tlon to Home mfhv: “A Caoadian Is House of Anansi, 186 pages, $12.95 seacoast to free.bersdf from petty village someone who has a logical reason to paper (ISBN 0 88784 I44 9). talk. The events of the story lead up to think he Is one.” Aod by extension, there will be Canadian stories. By Sberle Posasorskl of the Lundahls and several other-village’ Mostly, these are pretty good. Many IN TODAY*S population-conqcious famllle4 to Canada. of the writers are excelleot styuslr: soclety, the only place we like om The plot-line is workable, yet Barclay Paulette Jiles, Sarah Sheard, Alice fandUes large is in fiction and M TV. runs, into trouble with her extravagant Mumo, Bvaa Green, and Ray Smith. and sometimes bewildering use of Some are creative fabullsts: Patrick of g&rations of autocratE -fathers, metaphors. Images are either too quick- Roscoe, Margaret Atwood, Michael stoic mothers and angs-ridden children. Iyunlockedwith~stighterttwirtof~e Ondaatje. and Stan Dragland. Still However tltUlating these households me metaphoric key. or Uke the blue spirit others have skllfully allud9 to tmdl- to peek into. a long look usually con- that twirls sod dances above tbe Lun- tlonal narrative themes: Qrol Shields, fms the v&es of family plamllog. dabls’ bed and the trolls that seem to Marleoe Cosbshaw,,and P.K. Page. TXs novel. the tbll lo the Lacjardm pop out from behind every tree, they are But if the short story is to be detined trilogy, begins lo 1900 in Norway with informed with a curious obscurity, and as having a heglmdng. a middle and an the departure of Magnus Vagoal for are stubbornly reslstaot to interpreta- end. many of these “pieces” come North America. Like many young men tion. across as just that-taken from a whole of the time, Magnus decides to e&rate Like Julia Mills in Dmrid Copp.&eldd. orgaalsm and placed under the appio- not so much to seek adventure but to Barclay has a wonderful flow-of words prlate magnitication of language, point escape the consequences of his misad- and likes to pour them OUI: of view, settlog, or character. The ex- ventures - his robbing his father and Remember the double row of beech and perience is &llar to belog la the wrong impregnating of a village girl. What elm and ask srchlng high above. the seminar at a large literary convention. A minimal virtue Magnus possesses is lost hollows on esch side of the csrtwsy semlologlst Isn’t necessarily going to in America as he takes to the ways of the whcrs trolls emerge fmm water graves hate ao anthropological look at the sub- New World. He marries a Norwegian and dsna In s drcle until the false lista ject matter, but the degree and iUtWiQ girl only to obtain her fathds farm, of dawn reminds them of sleep. of the scrutiny Is liable to seem excessive. which he then drunkenly gambles away. But lyrlclsm alone, amid such a gmad In the short story. while variety and AU the plot standards of the epb coUectlon of Imagistic oddltles, cannot. individuality are to be hlgbly prized, if length family saga are here. However, urge to life the pages of this decidedly they appear at the expeose of the whole since Willll’s book is re.latively short, off-beat tale. 0 they may threaten to subvert the survival those standards inadvertently get played of the specla. The compactness of the at a Keystone-cop pace. The novel Is fonp is an elegant stricture that allows somewhat redeemed by the distinctive for crafty maalpulation. like a sonnet or voice of Magous’s first-person nsrm- a sports car. It is not a time-worn gilded tion, but when the narration switches to caee from which ascape is always a ti- Magnus’s wife Hilda, it begins to sputter to a halt: she lists Magnus’s misdeeds &Is wllection has merit, but with the with the flatness of a police call-sheet. exception of Ray Smith and Alice This awkwardly constructed novel Is Munro. tbe author bave conscientiously top-heavy with action lo the fmt genera- made the sti of the parts larger than tion, and talk-heavy In the folIowIng the whole. 0

_ ,r ,... . ,_ 1. :. .Y :- -;.*_-T.. r,:.: .i i;-‘?,Y..-. -. . .!,. _y ._,.L. __., Clzowski and otha journalists. Out of per mmce. that’s caviar to tbe general _&.IltP ,o_.r?“~ mr 1-wIlnmPn ..,,. nt-...z...+ tni. .““.A,., .i”.. “._!&+~ ~‘?!%=!lr. *km __r.,“j”~ T c4.,,& nnt. Legmiss, Legends & Lies, by Joan resumed broadcasting tbe program three ‘.. - &ig!el+ &fer a soluti&~ doli?‘aue”pt Finnigan, Dcneau. 162 pages, $16.95 wars aw. 200 were Dicked for tbis il; wash the caviar. “Before serving, paper (ISBN 0 88879 120 8). , book.. - - rinse caviar mxler cold water in a sieve.” _ _. . . They include a passionate demmcia- What will they rinse next7 Oysters7 But . ..I__ _$ n..._-.__L.TLT. : mm v_.._. ‘uzI__*___, . .._ _ 6 .._ /I_ _ .!“’ u.w~~+lu~o*“~Il, “Iii a armper or-. THL9 SECOND BOOK of Fkmigan’s yams ing old, being a parent, facing &tth; Florentine reveals that one shouid: ‘dut (the fit was Some of lhe SIo&zv I Told chat from Greece; politics from oyster in half, saving the Iiquor.” You Were True) is hummuus end light Nicaragua; modern, Canadianized ’ In short, the book is unpredictable. .1I,Y .,~t,&&?.8w~&3nwt?gu~~~~ ‘L-i” Just when you’ve ~ome to believe that all ventiveness that comes from necessity. :z:~~::$“::z%~++ln az&Ll&r$&%,& “/as &“Ulxa Fmnigan provides some of tbe back- diary bj a “an ever mom dapemtely tion are thickened with all-purpose ground of her trip through the Ottawa looking for a job, another by an flour. you stumble upon a recipe for alcoholic trying to stay dry: ap,~pologia Mustard Sauce-a Hollandaise, really, Valley, then goes on to introduce tbe ...... r. _. . .._ !__.. __.I_, story-tellers by describing their physical *or gooa grammar; aescnpuons OI mar mr Ieasons 01 secrecy LuIt caue” and mental characteristics, surround- Canadian life in different mgions. in dif- Mustard Hollandaite - that makes you. ings, and history. Each chapter then ferent ems. Tbe moods; opinions, and wani to “think your conviction that takes on the individual’s stamp and subjects variously provoke sympathy, Liuming some wipe books isn’t such a chamcter. anger, thoughtfulness, sometimes bad thii. FTnnigan’s characters range from the laughter, sometimes a letter in reply. By my count there are IS passable farmers, whose “paradoxical com- Written by Canadians from all across recipes hem. but Pm not we whether plexity” is derived fmm the need to keep the country and tbe globe, they are there is any incentive to search for thy farms going, to town drunks, lazy wqds exchanged between friends. tre~su~n in a sea of culinary dreminess rascals, businessmen. French Cana- For any fan of its eclectic source, The swarming with such thii as Cocktail dians, and wealthy sodalitcr. Practical Morningside Papas is areat fun. 11 may Meatballs with cornflake crumbs, a Cin- jokes, folklo”, and the Valley itself lack the immediacy of the show, but it namon Ring made from Loaves of frozen bind the” together. Throughout the has the advantage of being available any white bread dough, and a Consommt Valley are those of Irish descent - and time of the day or week. 0 Surprise sprung by opening a can of con- some French - who have retained much somm& of their origins and who still fght, with Complementing the liberal use of can- verbal humour. the battlea and pre. ned guck is the writers’ uncannily judica thev brought with&em fmm the Jubilation: A Celebration of modest imagination - evea in the bld count&. One Irish mother tells Favomite Recipes. Junior teague of mmotations, which are of the “A pichue another about her son’s wonderful job Toronto. 234 pages, $15.95 paper (ISBN to behold,” .l,Absolutely sinful!” and in a London crematorium: “He’s bum- 0 969203 01 1). “Party pretty” variety. “Party pretty” ing Englishmen and getting paid for By Volker Strunk is not only the recipe for Spinach and it!l” Smoked Salmon Salad bul’ also the one WRIITEN TO CBLE~ATB the diamond for Tomato Aspic in Cheese Crust, in Unfortunately, humour - upeiziu.llv jubilee of the Junior League of Toronto. that in folklore - is a neglected part of which the aspic turns out to be lemon- our literary tradition. Instead. we usual- part of an international organization flavoured jelly powder “bud with broil- Iy dwell on the gravity of the intangible that trains volunteers to serve their cam- ing water. You are nut invited to mix “sutivaP’ without ever experiencing it. munity. Jubiladon could not have been lemon-flavoured jelly powder, boiling (As one contributor puts it, “You have mom coy about we&g the League’s water, ketchup, onion juice, and celery to have had to face tragedy befo” you activities had it been written by the powder to attain Quick Tomato Aspic, Mafia. which tbe annotator considers “A tangy can enjoy a good joke.“) Legacies, Charity. as Sir Thomas Bmvme (or Legends. and Lies is a must for anyone treat1 Recipe can be increased to serve a who enjoys a 8Ood .story and a good was it Lady Thomas7) remarked some cast of thousandsI” As if Hollywood zliu years after the blvention of the didn’t have enough trouble. 0 chuckle. Or for those Canbdians who printing press, begins a tome. This one’s can laugh at themselves. fr bad a first printing of 10,000, thanks to earnorate ald. But the book’s true smm- Perfect Pies, by Diane Fine, Mac- The M&mi@de Papers. by Peter sm. I’m led to suspect by the u.g&ly millan, 206 pages, $12.95 paper (ISBN 0 Gzwski, McClelland & Stewart, 352 numbqr of recipes that call for the can 7715 9897 9). y $14.95 paper (ISBN 0 7710 3743 opener, is the notoric.us Mrs. Heinz, Campbell. By Waler/e de Montlgny The party doesn’t get off to a good FINE ATTEMIIS TO turn the old jtandby By Valerie de Montlgny start. Leading the pack of recipes is intam adve&e in taste and nutrition. vmll MORF, THAN a million listeners a Antoine’s P8tte (good old chicken liw Clear instructions, a pastry cbmt. and we&, CBGRsdio’s Morni~kie is one ptitt with a liver/vegetable sbortming hints for pre-baking and freezing are of Canada’s most popular shows. com- ratio of 4 to 1) whose perpetrator useful and often glossed over in other bining reminiscences, news, views, believes in deglazing the pan before ad- cookbooks, and the format is attractive drama, music, songs, poetry, argument, dig the cl&ken livers. Avocado Pie has and practical. The names of some of sentiment. science, and politics, en optional garnish of black caviar - these pica ti a treat in themselves - presented by host Peter Gmwski with a optional, I suppose, in case you blew alI Chinese Bird’s Nat chicken Pie and mixture of intelligent cmiosity, concern, your money on the shortening. And if Scallops with Cucumber Sauce in Pastry and wit. Some of that is caught by the you’re wondering how to wash your Puffs - but what reaUy matters is how pieas in this book, a compendium of bands of the dirty deeds that enable you they taste and how easy they ax to letters fmm listeners and articles by to afford pickled roe of sturgeon (at 824 make. The answer to the first question is The book is arranged in four sections, the book - about half of tbeti~ in miwed. Ria’s Creamy Prawn Quiche beginning with chapters about resem’ch colour, many of them wmmissioned for (made with fresh shrimps, heavy eream. on the body’s organ systems. The second the book and taken by Marianne Ma- and cream cheese in a whole-wheat seaion reviews studies into particular jaw, who seems td have enjoyed crust) \“a$ applauded by six of my seven cells of (he body. The third focuses on unusually aood weather. The wintin is testers. Chicken Ctirry Pie with Yoghurt sub@lular components, and the fourth by the Ii&an firm of Mond~doti, iho Crust (a whole-wheat double-crust pie is devoted to celluls.r communlcatlon live up to their reputstion by their with a tilllug of chicken, green peppers, processes. A profile of the rexarchers magnificent colour work. The nuts. raisins and onions in a curry- typographic design is beautiful too. The yoghurt sauce) wss less popular. editing and proofreading sre as Making the pastry is not easy, despite chmaaerlstically Bngllsh -that is, slop- all of Fine’s hints; the dough is dry and py - as the colour printing is hard to handle. I also question how chamaelistlcaUy Italian. msny of us would routinely use apen- The price for all this h ssioundlngly slve non-salted butter for frying and low. If you happen to have 333.95. you dough-making. and then add salt. On could hardly spend it better. * the positive side, the fillings are time follows each esssy, but except for Ga- consuming, but foolproof. rard’s most six flat and offer few in- Per/ccl Pies suffers from the same sights into the scientists. It is surprlsbtg, Beyond Courage, by George Csssar. faults as its predecessor, The Cookie however, to learn how many Canadian Oberon Press, 184 pages, $24.95 cloth Bookie - flavour suffers from tmtti- medii remhers grew up believing (ISBN 0 88750 600 3) and $12.95 paper tional overkii. Most of the time, the they wanted to be engineers. (ISBN 0 88750 601 1). whole-wheat pastry is just too heavy. Despite its many shortcomings, By Derek Sucl?arfl However, if you experiment. there is Medical Raearch makes a good start at boundless inspiration here for many unveiling some of the wellrkept secrets THE SECOND BAlTLE of Ypnx, one of the delicious meals. 0 of rewarch labs amund.the wuntw. But first battles of the First World War in its tiny print, uneven format. and occa- which Cmw.dians took part, wss also sionsl typogrspblcsl errors do little to where the “mlmdals” made a good deal dispel what Getmrd desxribu as the of their reputation, by standing fm MedIcal I&search In Cennds: the “mistaken image that reseat& done in when all about them took flight in the F~sclaatls8 Stories of 30 Cmtsdisn Canada must be second rate.” 0 face of the fvst gas attacks. 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Owen The p~ence of maps does not help days, they reviewed the achievements of IT WAS EXACILY nine centuries ago thii much as each of them gives the scene the past quarter-century and mused year that eommissionen were travelling from a different perspective, with few about the future. They also received all over Bnglsnd carwing out the order reference poitits in ec~mmon to convey complimentary copies of Medical of William the Norman to give him a the ebb and flow of battle, inslgniflcant Research in Canada in which Wbmlpeg de&iptlon of his Lmgdom in detail though it ws in this ultimate war of researcher Dr. Jon Gerrard profiles the unprecedented, probably. in the history atttition. background and work of 30 men and of the world. 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Domesday Book itselc but it lists all the But despite his efforts to write the places named, with some of the par- By Gregory M. Cook book “in B manner that can be easily ticulars given for each one, full quota- ~tm gtwut covert of this photo- undastood,” Germrd could have gone tions for * few in each county, desaip- documentary album of military history much further than he did. Medical tions of these today, and some anealotsl is approptiately designed to honour the Rerwrrh remains full of technical and history of events there between then and 6,387 casualties and the more fortunate i scientific terms that obscure the link be- now - irrelevant to Domesday but of the Canadisn army who saved in the t\veen research and human suffea. As interesting in themselves. Oct. IO-Nov. 8.1944. campaisn to open a result. resders with * backgmund in The photogmpbs Bre also mo*Lv ir- the allied supply mute to the port of medicine or science will have sn essier relevant to Domesday, for very few ‘Antwerp. The book is dedicated to the rime mtderstmtdlbtg it, and should fti mat of eight nations. especially the the book useful 85 a ref- guide. dii the;, but they&e the great 8lot.y df tifsntry, who stand in the foreground of human history on a horizon so Ilat in characters would be welcome. this “landscape format” that they must Nonetheless, the Yukon is an intrigu- have easily imagined theb’ own grave Yukon WildlIfe: A Sochl History, by ing area for the study of wildlife markers at the end of their muddy Robert 0. McCandless, University of management. In this book we’re IB march. Alberta Press, 157 paps, 814.95 paper minded that, particularly in a society The authors weave their detached (ISBN 0 88884 093 5). economically dependent on wild scholarly narrative through Canariiin animals, conservation must be more war di&ies. other of!idai documents, By Claire Brownscombe than a numbers game. 0 photographs, war art, intelligence maps, THE DIZ~~SJ~~NI of wildlife manage- as well as the book’s own maps designed ment was interwoven with the Yukon’s with a red marker (a ribbon of blood) of social history throughout the first half of temporary front lines that were drawn the 20th centwv. Peode streamed into Language, Sodety and Identity, by like an eternity for many. The domin- the area during the- Gold Rush of John Edwards, Basil Blackwell ating story - revealed by graphics - is 1896-1900 and again in the 19406 when (Oxford), 245 pages, 822.50 cloth (ISBN ; of commanders in sheepskins. recon- the building of the, Alaska Highway 0 631 14232 0) and 88.95 paper (ISBN 0 naissance maps and photos of land brought the Yukon into the modem 631 14233 9). pock-marked by bombs, and military world. In the intervening years, two By Lorne Ellaschuk machinery photographed during break- cultures. white and native, coexisted in downs, smoke breaks, demonstrations, approximately equal numbers in a ED~~ARDS ~~sw’tttrnz~ B scholarly book and occasionally in action. pxiety where wild animals supplied cm the ~nnection between gmup iden- Background includes: evacuated money for both government and its tity and the labguage a group speaks. He civilians, destroyed villages, flooded citizens. has attempted to do this in as agriculture, one dead enemy soldier, Government officialdom, cbsnging disinterested a way as is possible with prisoners, a medic at work, and pipe attihldes in other parts of the continent such a value-laden subject. He exatnhxs players at my father’s burial - the real- toward the exploitation of wildlife, fluc- the supposed connections between ity of war. But thii is a military (not a tuating fur markets, and improved travel national and ethnic identities and war) history, in which the authors’ pas- and communications all affected the language and finds no necessary ones. In sion for documentary detail provides a Yukon’s mansgement procedures. In a chapter on the dynamics of small turn, govemmettt regulations such as languages (Irish, Breton, the minority of the- current we& of-war memoi&, those requiring trapline registration British dialects), be concludes that tall tales, and myths. No puncher are added to the strain on natives already languages shift and disappear because of pulled in exposing these or in confirming hampered by low fur prices and the economic forces. If a group has a strong errors of allied commanders. * social changes brought by the Alaska enough sense of its “gmupness,” this Highway. “alteration” (“loss” is a negative word, Regrettably, lack of knowledge of implying a static concept of history) will “We Were the salt of Ibe Earlh”: The animal populations and harvests be accepted: “Another language comes On-to-GttawaIkhnnd theRe&aRiot, precludes an objective, assesamettt of to serve and, in’tbe transitional period, by Victor Howard. Canadii Plains’ wildlife policies, and any abundance of, bilingualism is the usual bridge.” BII- &search Centre, illustrated, 208 pages, wild animals appear to owe more to the gualism is, then. a means to an end, and $15.00 paper QSBN 0 88977 037 9). multictdtwtism, if looked at closely, is an indication of how comfortably integ- By Y&r/e Keller g&e managim&t. The reader may wonder if wildlife management had any rated ethnic groups feel in the main- THIS THOROUOHLY researched if major significance apart fmm its retlee stream culture. They are so sure of their somewhat less than exciting book will tion of changing social values. children’s English, they can send them make a good reference .because of This somewhat repetitive analysis to heritage language s&ml on Satur- Howard’s passipn for detail. and would covers a lot of ground, and includes fat- days. The mainstream school system be a gem for someone interested in should do nothing to promote eid+ rvrit~ghistoricalf~tion. Howard knows bilingualism or muRicultwalism, wtcept his subjRt and has done a lot of work, as these arr in themselves good things but his account is dry reading and (Iike a knowledge of music or art). should have been more doseIy edited. Somehow reading thii intelligent, Howard pmvides far too much infor- reauma.bIe book has left me extremely mation. Often he misleads the reader by angry. Its disinterestedness hider the fact - induding an anecdote that seems to be that Edwards and myself aren’t in any introducing a new element. then turns danger of being “altered.” Bnglish is out to be irrelevant. For example, a trek- healthy and virile. So we can comfort- ker falls to the gmund during the ably look an, note each group going A demonstration in Regina, leading the through language “alteration,” and, reader to assume be bar been shot. But mildly chastise its leaders if they oppose no, be has suffered an epileptic seizure: the inevitable. And if they point out our .” the inclusion of this anecdote has no unfairly strong position, we can always bearing on the story. take what Edwards calls “a long enough Iii&y buffs &II fmd this book perspective” and remind them of 1066 presents a thorough picture of the pIight - Anglo-Norman and a8 that. We’ve i of the unemployed in the 19% the tud detail that sometimes makes for dull been thmugh it too, and look at our relief camps and the readring strike and reading. People create interest, but this sense of gmupners! It’s so strong WF can book seems cluttered with names of ignore the pain of any minority language many opportunities to develop s read- government officials, hunters, and group, turning its loss into a synonym able story. All the &mats are there. 0 others. Colourftd sketches of fewer for change.. 0 Psyched out Though both make provocative reading, two books about the human mind indicate that science is better left to the scientists By Keith Maillard

Mnlllple Maw Explorations i” tions of case after case with such dates’as He does argue w”vi”cingly that takblg Possessloa and Maltlple Personality, hy 1816 and 1887, I began tosuffer froma” Adam Crabtree, Collins, 278 pages, lncreaslng anxiety - perhaps I mighhr to worl; with clients. “‘As a &rapist,” $22.95 cloth (ISBN 0 00 217225 9). eve” say an& Oneof my multiple per- he says, “that is good enough for me. As ObJecllvlly and Human Perception; sonalities - the one who managed, long a philosoplq I remain puzzled.” Revisions and Crossroads I” Psycho- ago and far away, to make it through a Equally puzzled remains Ihe reader. analysis and Philosophy, by M.D. psychology cotuse or two in universisity Most of the cases described in Crabtree’s Faber, Unlvasily of Alberta Press, 229 - was whiipering nasty things in my book are based upon anecdotal and ;;““, 514.95 cloth (ISBN 0 88884 083 ear. I managed to make out the words hearsay evidence, a”d this reader is still “control: and S’expe.timuUer bii,” wondaing why it’s a Catholic priest who and “veritiable”; I wondered why Crab- witnessed levitation and not B.F. THESE ARE.UNLKELY candidates to be tree WBP writing about the multiple per- skbmer. reviewed together. Adam Crabtree’s a~- sonality phenomtnon BI though most of I’ve bee” o” the receiving end far too ploratio” of the multiple personality the import& work in the fold had been often of reviews that tell me about the phenomenon is lively, entertaining. done before 1900, and why the few cases book I should have written to be corn- academically n&e, at times downri@ reported after that date seemed to have fortable doing tbls, but I’m going to do batty-bar also provocative and useful; occured in places at considerable it anyway: I wish Crabtree had written a anyone ioteresled in the material could remove from university psychology book aboor hir therapeutic practice and read it quickly, with pleasure. M.D. departments. had left what. he mistakenly calls Faber’s attempt to wed psychommlysii Aba, I thought, be’s preparing us for “science” or “philosop~ to thos$ with philosophy is ponderous, frequent- the argueal that contemporary psy- competent to comment on if. His 80 ly dull, on rhe surface academically chology has a blind spot in this a~% cmmts of bis own therapeutic work are sophisticated, at Limes insightful - but fas*naw; I wish there were more of , far too often muddled; no one without and recut emanations from thi la&c them, prescored in greater detail. His at least some background in pbilosopby fringe because academic psychologive therapeutic approach appean m he and psychoaoalytlc theory mold manage do not believe Lhal some of these creative and healing; I wish he’d told os to slog throu8b it. But botb books, phenomma are possible., and if you more about how he’d lesmed it and how despite vast differences in style and soLi- don’t believe that something is possible, he does it. Nevertheless, I believe that ject matter, have tl& in common: they you’re noL going to see it, not even if it is Multiple Man should be rewired stand fdy in opposition to the most standing in your office and.takiDg up as reading for any practisiig therapist. and redoctlonisr, mechanistic, .and destrw much space as a rhinoceros. “I, I would certabdy recommend it as good tive strand of that myth sysm that is however.” Crabtree might have said, described as “scientific,” yet both “have seen and examined such things the vast. wo”disaimlt&g sea of the remain trapped by it. myself, so I kaow that rhey exist; there- ocadr. Crabtree is a therapist, not a psycho- fore I conclude that contunporary To say thar Faber’s book is difficult logist. When he’s writing about thera- rexaxb is severely hampered by its own reading is thundercJs understatement. peutic techniques, he’s on firm ground; UnwIamincd II priori assumptions.” One Wig for certain: he knows Frrud when he’s writing about what he calls Crabtree presents no such argument. and the Freudians, and, bawd upon the “philosophy,” he’s in deep water and To give Crabtree his due, be hers take” speculations of certain of the Frewilans often in danger of drowning. He’s take” a look at rccmt work with some claim to (he’s careful to footnote them), be conslderable pains to organize his academic rupectablllty. But it’s only a cbdas that human pexception is learned material clearly. Part one, “The Multl- loolt; what I miss is an owvlew of the in a “mirror relationship” between the pie Self,” offers a brief history of fti, some sense that Crabtree @ght infant and the mother: mesmerism and introduces the multiple have spat a,week or two in a library What occurs ss ths infm” under8oa personality phenomenon. Part two going through psychological abstracrs. rrparation has bea dcwlbed as a “llf+ presents anecdotal accounts of the Withour such an overview, a Main long moumlng procar.” a process that possession experience: we’re introduced weighr ls missing, a ballast that might trigserr an endless scar& for ‘?eplaLw to various possessing entitles who jump have saved the book fmm sailing off in- ment” which is tied inlegrslly to our into people’s psyches and take them psrdclpstion in the symbolic realm. . . . E-my new step thaf we take toward over. In part three - by far the most in- an&m sacliflclal cldts cavort with ~ufonomy holds fix ulreat of loss. We teresda and fruitful portion of Crab- denums from helI. agonize as WC come to differentiate our- tree’s book - we are presented with Of the concepr of experknental co”-. relwd from the other. to learn in mu accounts of his own therapeutic prac- tml, Crablree appears not to have a body-minds what reparation tice. Pxt four ls a” attempt to explain well-developed, notion, and defending meanr. . . . In this way, our very ability multiple personality and possession. himself by calling his approach to conceive of “oblccts” as s@mle in As I found myself reading descrip- ~~phenommolog*al” fails to save him. spa-e, an ability which underlies the . “sctentifld’ view Of the world.. . , is tein in any sew the wne’t among people working in the huna”ilies arnkencd early in life in bwxldcable Having’arrived at the truth of human these days. Writbtg of “a daoger” in association to the emotive dilemma of perception, Faber proceeds to run certain approaches to behavioor, he re~sration from the care&r. throogb some of his predecessors to ses complains that “the emphasis comez.to Our very perception the”, Faber how they fared. Freud, Descartes, be on ‘human meaning’ and ‘releva”ce claims - OUT notions of spaceand time, Home, Kant. Hegel. Husaerl, Merleau- to the whole person’ in a ‘soft’ way, a our use of language - re”lai” forever Pony, and eve” Karl Marx arc examined kind of humanistic way. . . :’ But if fraught with a”siety related to the in turn and found wanting. Faber the” “soft” is humanistic is bad, ttie” what is separation from the mother, for, as argues “for synthesis among these three “hard”? Despite his torturously Faber puts it, “mu perception itself is fields. psychoanalysis, ~henomenology, acadnnic style and multitude of cita- the chief carrier of our contlict.” and what I have chose” to call practice.” tions, Faber’s book is just as “soft” as There is (if I may present Faber’s (Buddhists had been calling it that too, the work of any of the people he wotdd argame”t in “ly own crass fashion) incidentally. long before Faber chose the dismiss. samething wrong with us. The some- label.) He cc&odes his book by arguing Faber is a” amateur. His love of his thing wmog is perception itself, and it that “OUT understanding of ourselves. work is apparent in the time, effort, tid got to be wong because we learned it OUT ,perception, our cognition, our care he’s take” with it. But bow, for in- from Mom, and whenever we try to see whole manner of relating to and bei”g i” sta”ce, can one comment intenige”tIy ” things clearly Mom always gets in the the world, will remain tragically in- upon the origin of what’s wrong with , way. We EBn’t possibly be objective, and complete until we integrate the psycho- our “sckntific” world-view without science can’t “take any clabns to objeo analytic ‘data’ on the dynamic origins of mentioning Frances Yates or pronoun& tivity. But it’s eve” worse than that. Our our ‘mental apparatus’ into ow upo”.Zen without citihg D.T. Samki, entire civilization - particularly our theoretical schemes. the Huang Po Doclrine, or eve” The I’ science - is screwybemuse OUT percep- Now, wait a minute. What data? The Diamond Sutm? How can one argue tion is screwy, and if WC don’t do word lends a lovely cmhet of science to that ow civilization itself is mad without something about it, we’re going to blow this ringing sentence, but the clahns at least a mention of others - Jules ourselves up. upon which Faber’s argument rest ore Henry or R.D. L&g, for instaoce - Is there a way out? Yes, Faber says. not verflable. Coming fmm 811 entirely who have argued the same thing7 How There is apractiv “designed to diii different angle, the depth analyst James does one have the chutzpa to comment the stress accumulated during the Hillmao. in his brilliant book Theh@fh on the Kabbaleh without having read primary years and to foster a “on- ofAnn.!M.s, writes: “I question the tales Gershom Scholun? pmjective perception of ‘objects,’ a” psychology tells us about infancy - Before I revert to infantile howling, I epistwnic alteration of the rmtllner in those fantasies about babies’ aperimce wont to pose amodest question. What’s wbii one apprehends not only the ea- at the breast.” So do I. (And, while I’m wrong with the humanities? Let us not temal envimnntent but the ‘wdrld’ at it, I also question fantasies about tom oar back upon OUT Alma Mater - within oneself.” He -the” lists sew” human perception, particularly when our great pld mother of intertwining car- schools of such practice: Hindu Bhakti, those fantasiw do not take intoaccount ridon and multiple Myers. By all means Jewish Kabbalah, Chrisden Iiesychasm, the’ work of cultoral anthropology. Do take on the mean-spirited technicians of SulIsm, Transcmdental Meditation, Hopi Indians or Australia” Aborigines oar botched .civilization with both Ashtanga Yoga, and Z-s”. Why, we perceive thbtgs the same way that we scalpel and bmad sword, but leave might ask, when there are so ma”y perceive them?) science to the scientists. Psychoanalysis mystical traditions available, did he pick I have considerable sympathy for,the and lhe various psychotherapies have as this particular seven? We might also ask position Faber holds and no sympathy tbei~twarest rehitive not physics but whether or not these seven “schools” for the methods he uses to get there. literature. “Only literature,” as’ North- from soch widely divergmt coltural Faber, who teaches English at the rop Frye hastold us, “gives us the whole backgrounds offer (I practice - that is, University of Victoria, suffers from sweep and range of human inmgi”ation ere their methods or the results they ob- physig envy - f co”““0” pathology as it sees .itself ” Cl

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i .%muyanu is about “the life history of Mossadegh in Iran. ” Hope Cooke was Rama and Sita before they were actually 13 years old at the time of Mossadegh’s born.” a statement that defies both logic fall, and thus not very likely to have and truth. There is no mention of taken active part in political events. On the road Rama’s and Site’s previous lives in the One could make a very long list of entire epic. glaring factual errors in Brata’s book, .Yalidasa’s Meghaduta flhe Cloud not all of thun excusable as sloppy to Rajast han ..zr~~uecTJ lncorrectlv described as one proof-reading. Howe.ver. the real point By Stella Sandahl of the ,e>s longer p&s (it is aclualIy is that Brata’s neglect of facts puts his the shortest of them), is assessed as mak- eaire endeavour in jeopardy. 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Brata would not be Brata if he did not OrPi Deows, I% pages, ti.95 cloth Being a Bengali, Brata declares that parade his favourite obsession: the lack (ISBN 0 88619 067 3). his home dry (Calcutta) “is the only city of sexually available women in India (UC- in the whole of India that has a dhct wpt for the dther very expensive or very weag B A widespread belief that any- historical link with the past.” What cheap pmsti&s). and the Victoria” body can teach his ow” mother tongue, about Delhi, Lucknow, Benares, puritanism of the entire wuntry. All this shnply because he knows it. Similarly, Hyderabad, and a score of other India” is true, but what Brata fails & realize, there seems to exist a conviction that any cities7 Brata then proceeds to inform us much less analyze, is the ec0”0”& strut- Bust Indian, by the mere virtue of being that “culture is a birthright for a ture of the India” middle class, where a” Indian, knows everything there is to Bengali,” that Bengalis have the women are still treated es commodities. know about India This m&cc.nception sharpest minds in Indll (why not la the It is a social disgrace for a woman - seems to be a” article of faith among world?) but, unfortuoately, “Most and one reflecting on her father - to Indians. and it is probable that all ethnic Indians resent Bengalis for no better remain unnmrried, and it is consider+ ’ communities settled outside their reason than that they are unnatural if a man refuses to f&I1 his homeland have the same belief kbout unfathomable.” I presume the reader is duty to be apulerfami/iasand produce a themselves. Unfortunately, publishers supposed to conclude that Brata himself male heir. Marriage is a social saaa- also fall vIctbn to this false notion. ment, and the equation of love and sex Se&hi Brata is a” East Indian jour- - which is sadly mntradlcted by his book. harverylitt~edowi~it.Itisaboveall nalist settled in Great Britain who has He may he “unfathomable,” but is it an economic arrangement for the family taken upon himself to “explain” India worth taking a sounding7 at large, “ot a” individual d&lo”. The to Westerners. He expresses opinions Rabindranath Tagore gets a pat on the p&e of individualism is very high in about pm&ally everything - politics, back, but.he “is unbsbned in. his own India, and only a very few - such as the emergency, Indian inheritance laws, image.” Brata is right to deplore the old- people from Brata’s social background r&&g and resigned chief ministers, fashioned and ‘inadequate translations - cao afford it. the Sikh& religion, sutlee. the lousy se+ of Tagore’s prose and’poetry, often by It was a relief to pass on to The W& vice provided by Indian Airlines, the poet himself. But even in mediocre of India, a short, low-keyed hook, history, philosophy, art, and, with par- (and dowtight ridiculous) translations, intelligent and compete& without any ticular iaristeuce, sexual mores. All this grandiose deigns of knowing and saying stated with little apparent knowklge or it all. I” the company of George Wood- insight, and wmplete confidmce. cock, the painter Tony Onley, and their Indeed, Brata has tried to toll every- wives, we are take” on a well- thing he knows about India, past, pre- documented but never boring guided sent, and future. About the past he tour of Rajssthan, Kemla, Orissa, and knows precious little. He continuously the town of Darjeeli~ in “orthem West repeats that the Mubabhamta is a Bengal. I have visited ail the places religious epic end, more astonishingly. Woodcock and his little group visit, snd . that it comprises “some 40 volumes of wish this book had bee” available before 1,000 pages each.” A” epic it is, and it is I travelled there. indeed very long, about 100,000 slokas This said, it must be stressed that The (a xl&a consists of two liaes of I6 W& of India deals with much more syllables each) if one includes the than just sightseeing and monummts. Hariwmsa. However, I have “ever see” Although Woodcock and Co. travel z it in 40 volumes. ReIlgio” is present in rather comfortably - as comfortably as the epic, and many a moral and rellgjous is possible in India - a”d meet a fair lesson can he drawn from it - as is the “umber of Rajasthant nmbarajahs (rich , case with practically every piece of litera- as well as moth-eat@, we do not get a ture - but there is noting particularly If Bmta appears misinformed or distorted view of the suhco”tl”e.ut as religious about it. @norant about the pest, he is hardly any see” by a group of tourists o” a luxury The other .geat Sanskrit epic. the more knowledgeable about the present. trip. Woodwck desmibes the splendours Rama~na, would qualify better to be Ctoa is described as “a tiny island,” a of forts, mo”wne.nts, sod “atwe. but he called %ripture,” especially since the statune”t any map will disprove. Hope also has a” open and critical eye for Ranm story is the object of devotional Cooke, the m-queen of Sikklm, is alleg- India’s defects. recitals. most often in its later, ver”a- ed to have been linked lo the CIA, and He also has something very uuunial to cuIe.r versions. Brata claims that the “mixed up with the overthrow of offer: constructive critlclsm. The Walk . _ .~. .._~_.. r_=.__.~-. _... __. ^..___ _,~_ .,._.-__..._.__Ci_,

of India h witten as a fund-raising pm- political solutions, “or does he preach. acmrdll to copyright law at the In- jeer, the proceeds going to the Canada His view is simple and modeat: let’s try perial “exus in the years from 1895 to 1 India Village Aid Associatio” (WA) to do what is possible, however small the 1924. and the” largely forpotten. for medll aid in rural area&The Gand- scale may be. Maybe one small initiative. Some af this material is indispensable.’ hilte Woodcock has retained the.Mahat- reasonably weil-implemented, will Copyright law had certified that sets also ma’s conviction that development in spread like rings on the water. It is be placed at the Library of Parllama in India meas imuovlu the living condi- reassuring that there st8l are people like Ottawa and at the Cau.dian copyright tions in its villages. Much could thus be him around. office. But the former fell victim to two 8ai”ed by simple means: clean water, A word about Onley’s illustrations. disastrous fires (one of which, in 1916. sanitation, a small dispensary, or jut They are, no doubt, exquisite, but also destroyed the parllamau btdldi”gs). and one trained nurse. very surprising. Gnley’s cold g-s, the latter was seatterrd by an even more These are needs that any illiterate blues, and greys seem so alien to the destructive agent: a” order-l”-cll villager ca” perceive as his, and very I”didis I know. Or niaybe I am too in- that sent a few volumes to the library of little has been done sa far. Most great fluenced by the war~ll yellows, o&es. the secretary of state and recmm”e”ded schemes concocted in Delhi - such as reds. and dark greens of most indi- disposal of the rest. Canadian negllge”ce . rural literacy programs, instruction in genous Indian art. Another int&d”g and British indiffetia have cornblued elementary hygiene and sanitation, not feature in Onley’s watercolours is the to preserve a great chunk of Canada’s to speak of fandly-platmhlg counselllng total absnce of what is absolutely documentary past; copies of some items - have “ever bee” implemented. Many w&voidable in India: its omnipresent, simply are not to be found anywhere ! belle that there has “ever bee” a real teenlhlg populace. dse. polltlcal will to do so, regardless of the Woodcock unmallciously describes Patiicia Piirce’s book focuses on the lip-service Indian politicians automa- how Onley was constantly harassed by found Iihotographic collection, espe- tically and regularly pay to Gandhian curic.us onlookers, that he w&l really clally the items located in the “c&mial ideals, socialist ideals. or any ideals at comfortable only in the isolation of the dump” of the British Library at Wool- all. lwurious Lake Palaa in Udalpur where with Amenal. Her book has three broad Why this is so is hinted at in Wood- few Indian4 have access, except the divisio&: in the tirst she retells the story cock’s excellent last chapter about uppemmst stratum and its savants. The of the fling of the hoard of Ca”adi& Delhi. New Delhi, he says, is a city cool dlsta”ce that comes through in materials; the second presents a dlsap- where all the mediocrities eonverge, in- Onley’s illustrations gives the impression pointing, simplistic sketch of Canadian cluding the mediocrity of its foreign that he really did not like India.. They history from 1895 to 1924; and the third diplomats. Woodcock confirms my stand in sharp contrast to Woodcock? - the hulk of the book - ls a portfolio low-held conviction that whatever is warmth toward India and its people. of.smne 200 of the dIsmvered photo- decided and planned in New Delhi is My reinarks are of course not an graphs. Unfortu”ately,Pieree’s photo- totally irrelevant M miles outside of the aesthetic juqgement. I very much appre graphic bag is a very nuxed one. capital. The rest of India lives its own ciate the assured competence of Onley The essential problem is that F’leree life. the artist. I do have some doubts about doesn’t know much about the history of New Delhi is a bnbu town, its Onley the observer of his fellow m. It Canadian photography. As a result, she ministries teeming with Byzantine in- ultimately goes to show that one has to has published a “umber of very comma” trigues. It ls far more important to have have a great deal of knowledge about photos - ones not lost at all. but very a car and driver and a biir bungalow India to be able to appreciate it in real much prrrenl in repositories throughout to indicate where one stands in the hler- life. George Woodwck has ii. 0 Canada and published and republished achy of the civil sewlce than actually to many times. Such is the case with two improve the country. Most IAS (Indian photos, one of so&llers supposedly- Administrative Service) officers want to lng to go over the top during the First be posted to New Delhi, and consider World War and another, from the same their periodiially recurrent provincial lot. of dead bodies on a she&swept postings IU a chore necessay to climb Less than battlefAd. Both arx dated 1918. The the ladder toward the summit. The only first is, in fact, a widely-knows faked other wxth\vhile posting is that of a meets the eye propaganda photo (usually linked with provincial governor, and such positions 1916 and the Somme), and the second is are necessarily quite limited. By Roger Hall a same repmduad in at least half a Woodcock testilies that the people he dozen books and from better copies. encounters in Delhi, mostly bureaucrats. Cmmda: The Mlsshtg Yeas, by I”thlssameareaofthebooklsavery apsume a blank look when he tries to Patrlda Pierce. Stoddart. illustrated. dark, wl&“own portrait of the Duke talk about the other India. the one out- 160 page3, $24193 cloth (iSBN 0 773; and Duchess of Cornwall (later Gmrge side. They are simply not interested. 2052 9). \I and Mary) at Government House in (This seems also to apply to foreign Ottawa by “William Notma” and So”“: jounmlists reporting o” India. They go BY NOW IHIZ story of the remarkable aeain, much clearer copies exist in to Delhi and get a largely distorted view discovery of some 40,000 items of Cana- Canada. Other examplcs of duplication of things.) dlana “lost” for years at the library of Woodcock does not say anyth& the British Museum is well known. The execution of Sta”lslaus La&lx at Hull. earth-shaking; he even occasionally cache was u~vemd in 1979 by Patrick (Besides,’ the caption Pierce provides O’NeiU of Mount St. Vincent University gives the wrong date, it was July 21. +lous books about the-subcontinent. in Hallfax. He had been searching for rather than March 21. 1902.) Still, it is necessary to keep on saying it. lost plays, and found 300 of them, One wonders why certain photos were Woodcock has remained an idealist in alongside some 2,500 maps, 10,000 chose”. A cramped cyclorama of the spite of everything, something I find’ books, and 11,000 pieces of sheet music. Canadian National Bxhlbitlon is simply both moving and admirable. He does There was much more too - includllg toosmallforustoseea”ythii,a”dthe “ot offer any spectacular or drastic 5,080 photographs - all duly placed kitschy buckskinned beauty in “A” ._ .

Autumn Outing” would have been bet- no’more. nod ooe emerg- fmm lhe tar served if the aIass negative hadn’t cm been cracked - ar;a so on. inlo o nol uncivilized sirurrllon. Then we better photographs in tbe As in the Htiagadan czardas dance. collection. In tie summer of 1984, with Falody’a poems often begbt with slow the cooperation of Jams Bglcr of the melancholy steps that accelerate into a British Library end Canadian researcher fiery climax. “Ave tuna, Morituri Te Barbara James, I had the chance to Salutant” is a cese in point. From the awnlne most of there same photos. luscious lunar imagery of the opening There w%e - not surprisingly - lots of section, it builds to a dramatic demmcia- familiar images and a lot of materials tion of imperialism upon the moon from non-professionals, bat there were through technological conqaest. also some very fine, scarce images from Faludy, edited by Robin -SkeIto$ . . . Kick Ihe vldooS lelevirloo some very well-known Canadian photo- McClelland & Stewart, 232 pages, over, strike it dumb. A lirrleIk?cdom graphers. A few of these are reproduced $12.95 paper (ISBN 0 7710 3117 3). sllll is I.$. Run oul inro Ihe g&en. here, but where is the fmh work of, say. Oab 1, by Robert Zend. ExlIe EdI-’ smell the spmndlw ows. drink in rbc Josiah Bruce of Toronto, William tions. illustrated, 98 pages, 812.95 paper g-. Topley of Ottawa, or the prolific Liver- (ISBN 0 970428 22 3). slmke lhe slhw lnsu o/ lbe moon. nois family of Quebec? That material, Oab 2. by Robert Zend, Exile Bdi- Faludy is more of a bibliophile thana and not s&e of-the hmndmm snaps of tions. illustrated, 237 page% $12.95 technophobe. In “Sonnet Seventy- this publication, is what all the e&te- paper (ISBN 0 920428 22 3). Seven,” he says of humanity: ment is about. C&l/y. they hoqJinlshed Mlhe Them are other problems with this, GEOROB PAL”DY follows in the wiesrcz book. There is no adequate the-me - tradition of Hungerian poets as ~~pillars A&r all, who knows or giva o dome what were “the missing years,” of fire.” He carries the dlstbtcilon of whol Ir lo corm!, mmenled lo have 1895-1924, all about? And do these having been persecuted by. both Nazis conl(or selected photos show us? The coaven- aad Soviets as a voice of freedom for the mlher than the ordoum ofdvlfimlioo. tiooal interpretation of the period is one Magyar peoples. This edition of’ his . . . Whal’s our d&m-e &aios-lbew . poems is a most for English speakezs. living dcsd? of an eoormous transformation in Mnybe o rhowood books, ,IHJ hundred Canada, from a country basically rural Robin Sk&on and a brigade of such habild Canadian poets as Robert Brlng- meold’s. a to one urban, from an &adtural He chooses Petmtdus as a model. society to one increasingly btdusltial, burst, Joho Robert Colombo, George and, on the \vorM’s stage, effectively Johnston, Cleorge Jonas. Dennis Lee, . . . bemwe he demooslmled..ond I end Seen Virgo have rendered the leanI& from a colony to a nation. The photos lbolnm.z&lmcelsaglRller used here pmvide little documentary gmcefol palatal glides of thelon poems, as well as the vicious vowels and strident PlwUre. evidence of that smnnlng transition. huodre#oid. lhan lo.wy or Perhaps the chapter titles suggest this affricates of the diatribes, into a parallel limitation bcsr: from “Wild Splendoor” Anglo world. It is a tribute to their to the inwitable “Last, Best West,” to workmanship as translators, or to ml gmb il. “Crown and Country,” to “Havbtg Fahtdy’s pure lyricism, that the images and, ewe in lhe dir& slnmlionv, Fun,” images are used as nost&ic come across as clean as a laser beam conlund II porndive omund himU. diversion, to suggest amusement or through a trammission t&e. llnrprkonnd by (be Reds I h-l& l;,z quaintness, rather-than supply doco- As with Lithoanhm. Latvian, Polish, mentary evklenee of what the missing end the poetry of other Eastern Euro- And fmm Faludy, we caa wntbme to years concerned. As well, them are a lot pean Uuistiao nations under oppres- learn that poverty and physical torment sion, Faludy’s early verse equates the are not enough to destroy nobility of scourged mother country with Christ heart and mind. crucified. In “Dame Macabre” the final In Robert Zend, we have a Hungarlao steps lead to death as a ‘door to salva- without an inaer censor. Legions of tion: Reach poets from Apollioalre on down - We go underground one and all, have spent a century explorlw the varia- ymrs/ru /Ike mlnules LO moaze ur. tions of the word soleil aa eye, sun. by lbe spill dewdmps o/uour blood earth. and other things. Zend spent 14 be me@ful lo us Prince Jew. years exbawblg au the possllle com- Faludy’s flights, political and binations of his ineffable alter ego Oab. imaginative. cover the universe. “ The two-volume set is a self-contained Rich Friend of Ours” endorses 2. camos of gems and garbage. . traasmigratian of souls: Aa ophthabnoscopic close-up of each Melem~h&? I’ve upcllenced il. of Zends eyes on each front cover stares of unnecessary slips ln captions aad One day os I wsle&og lhmugh o book at the viewer with ao intimidatiog !, historical mate&d that someone more publirhcd in 1710 upoo ooffquflics, I-opening question: cao you see my con- familiar with Canada’s past should have .nllhough I’m sore I’d nor mea il Won? tacts? caught. One mold, at least, get prime I Imew. lhe lb/e page lmmedlolely This is how bad, or good, the humour ministers’ names spelled correctly. aodeoch o/lhe mgmvlogs, and wassore gets. depmding upon .the reader’s pm lhol I had owned il In o previous li(e &position toward punning. Puns are Thll compilation is the first popular and hnd if in my libmry. bul wllh pobllcation fmm the valuable Canadian o somewhal d~reor bindiw. I wenl the lowest form of humouronly to dbn- cache uncovered in Britain. The others, mid. wits who can’t thiqk up one original which inevitably wll1 follow, can only be pun. Zend wa% a brightwag who takes us an improvement. Cl through a phantesmagoria of pareno- ~. -... _- .._. ~..

maria powred by his self-involved ner- Oab’is an eye-conoclastic celebration a Liberal or social democrat7 what wus energy. of individuality and freedom of expres- really motivated Whitney, a crusty, bad- Cute, cute, cute, I found myself say- slon. It is a diffiult easy-read that tempered lawyer fmm the eastern On- ing throughout book one, swallowing belongs beside junior’s MacPtit corn- Zend’s “Alphaabet” with the cmiosity puter program and O.K. Dnvdney’s seat reformer who b&&t us staterun of a threeyear-old playing with bls Pkwiveme, or as a teaching aid for Ontmio.Hydm and workers’ compensa- Alpha-bits. But by book two, my smile poetry-haling schoolkids raised on rock tion7 These two Taies, men who wem had absented itself end 1 found mpdf video. 0 s‘pmgresslve#’ in almost every sense of saying stop, stop, stop! the word, remain as enigmes. The visual and v&al puns on the In sayb1.9 tbls, I don’t want to detmct word Oab, and his trlpleganger playmate fmm the scholarship that ha0 gone Into Irdu. blitz you until the “doodles” turn the two books. In another respect, too, into flapdoodle. You end up no longer they are linked. Peter Oliver, a pmfessor caring for the charactem. The fc.mwh Conservative. at York Univenity, is associate editor of becomes overprocessed beyond enjoy- the worthy Ontario I-Ilstoricel Studies ment, like feeding peanut butter to a progressives Serlo and wmB tbe book on anotbex squirrel. Tory premier. Howard Fergusoa Zend, God. is aware of this. Like a By l3ruce Allen Pow (192%1930). as one of the Premiers of merciful creator, he has even made pro. Ontario sub-se&. Churl= Hmnphrles, vision for book revle\wrs as fault- Uidlkely Tory: The Llfe and Polltlca a professor at the University of British finders. Faced with a value judgement of Allmn Gmssman, by Peter Oliver, Columbia, hes produced his Wbltney upon completing his work, Zend sea Lester & Orpen Demtys, 322 pages, book BP the third volume In the series on that it is good - and bad-and names 924.95 cloth (ISBN 0 88619 049 5). the premiers. (A.K. McDougall’s some of tbe flaws: “the story of an “Honest Emmgb to Be Bold”: The biography of John Robarts, 1961~1971, oabsesslon” and “a fable on .self- I Life and Thea of sir Janlea Pliny Is completed and will be out sooi.) indulgence.” Whitney, by Charles W. Humphries.,’ On the surface, the Grossman story is. As far as alter egos go. Don Harmn’s University of Toronto Press, 276 pages, well, more engrosslug .for today’s Charlie Ruquharson is a more convine- 918.50 cloth (ISBN 0 8GZO 3420 9). reader. covering as it does his ing pmmy persona. Oab may work with remarkable career mall his ret&mea in multimedia crutches to prop It up; but as rIapouncAL junkie, like this reviewer, 1974. He was indeed tbe “Unlikely lllemture, the novelty of the visual Tory” of tbe title. Fmm an impover- miscellany, as \titb TV, tums the reader acute pangi of frustmtIon. Against tb& lshed lmmlgmnt backgmund, he beame into a passive observer. Reader-titer backgmund of today’s exciting political an blsurance agelit. a nrontci aldulnan. text gema em es old BS neo-modernism. seelIe in Ontario, a ferment not seen in then plunged in to tackle the awesome Hub&t Aquin in his novel i%ou de more than 40 years, the biogmphia of Commmdst organization in St. Andrew mhnmie, uses inner duplication as a two onmio politicians - one of the m. that had kept the popular Joe S&berg technique to stimulate co-creativity with cent past, the other early in the century at Queen’s Park. Grossman became the the reader. But in Oab, we watch with - fall short of giving us the real inside fmt Jw in a Conservative cablnet in inactive vision as Zend squeezes detail dope. No question that the two authors Ontario - serving undci Leslie Frost, upon encyclopedic detail into his two are able and competent histow but Robarts. and William Davis - where he pun sons. they have imposed restrictions on kept them in touch with the needs of the It’s unfair to compare 2nd with themselves’ that deny us the& own vlevn urban workers, especially the post-war Faludy. But for the sake of argument, or speculatkm, which would.be really immigrallt5. Ever so cautiously, Oliver consider this image from Feludy’s poem useful noti. says “there is Uttle agreement on how to “Noon to Sunset”: “. . . It ls’suneet: Take Peter’ Oliver’s biography of account for that swc?.ss” of the Toti. the hundred/shapej of your face ere Allan Gmssman. father of Larry But we need only to open tbe \Vhllney displayed in the clouds.” There am as Grossman, the cmxent leader of On- bl@ephy to fnd a good pert of the many ways to see that beautiful tario’s Tories. LabeUIng bls book as an answr. metaphor as there are readers to read “suthorlzed biography,” he tells us The Unlikely Rey?ormw might have those words. With Oab. we only receive “nothing from his [Grossman’s] papers been a better title for Hmnphrirs’s one picture. or our remrded interviews would be book. Even the photos make us wonder Zend at his best can at least keep com- publlsbed without his permission.” Ah, about Wbltaey. Bowler hat, walrus parative phllologlsts in stitches, as in the the perils of trying to write about llvlug moustache. double chin, crinkly bard zonky “Oab end Irdu Play Languages”: people. eyes - he looks the very stereotype of FRENCH EmCab Then Charles Iimnphrles says hfs the turn-of-the-century tycoon. Yet thls .w?4h7sfl Ch7b.z book on Jama Whitney, Ontario was the man who dared to rail at tbe h-ALL4Nonw premier from 1905 to 1914 and the “barons” and the “corporations,” as founder ’ of “progressive tbougb he were a forenumer of the Friends of 2nd. (even they are listed conservativlsm.” is a “political bio- NDP. in his pen-ultimate unl-verse,) will no graphy without adultemtlon through How did it all begin: tbis rush into doubt greet this collection with enthus- a!vf attempt at psycho-biography.” All reform and populism that Grossman iasm. But to en impartial eye, the explra- I$; beledds that no family papers re helped to keep alive a half century later? tlon of this “NEOVEL” leaves one cold. . . . . To start with, Ontario had changed On page 206, “Zend dice,” in real I@! So these two hlstotim have maintain- from a society tbhst was 57 per cent rural The announcement of bls death in his ed their purity, they leave us wondering. in 1901 to 52.6 per cent urban only IO awn oabituti bears as much impact as For instance, why dkl Allan Grossman, years later, wltb ell the problems .&bat Mickey Mouse dying in his own cartoon. tbe working-class Jew who In the 1850s went with it: harsh. dirty working co&l- Concrete verse writ.5 Maybe that’s the meated a downtown riding from the tlons; sixwo~lriag days a week, 10 houn way Zend, the Maker, intended it7 Communirts, become a Tory instead of a day; exploitlve piecework; typhoid

__- .._ - ___ 0utbKaks. unclean milk. ovacmwdcd was the bet&r way. Shrewd opportunists tilt toward Israel In his contribution, housing. Unions werewcak, yet Toronto they were, but what they wanted to see “Canada’s National Interest and the workers paraded under the black t&8 of wws more tokmnce than one would get Middle East.” Lyon contends that the aaarehy. fmm. the hardlincrs of the left. Gross- stated Canadian foreign policy g.oals of Politically, throughout a time of in- man, for instance, was angrily frustrated economic, growth, so&l justice, and credible change, Ontario was in the by the arrogant elitism of the urban a* peace and security have been ill-served hands of the Liberals, under Oliver tivlsts in Toronto. He muldn’t abide by our government’s stance on the Ml- Mowat then George Ross, a 33year-old them because hc felt he knew the people dlc East. Inequitable treatment of the regime running out of swam. The Iwo”- better than they dld. When the Tories Arab countries has hindered the ince needed fresh ideas, nr~ Icadet- lost that touch, M all know what hap development of trade relationships aad ship. Once, however, Laurlcr became pened. 0 has been unpmductlvc la addressing the prime minister in 1896,Ontarlo fzll fnto problems of the Palcstii. what we see today as an almost instlnc- Additional chapters dlseuss Canadian live balancing act, a tendency to put the policy regarding the Palestinians, trade opposite party into power at Queen’s relations with the Arab states, paap- Pa&. tions of Arab peoples in the West, and Dcspitc the deeline of the Liberals, Taking the role of Zionist lnterut groups in Whhncy had an interminably long stw- Canadian fomign policy. The book con- gle to unseat them. Fust elected as a sides cludcs with a verbatim transcript of the local member in 1888, he became party Stanfield Report, a review of Canadian leader in 1896. Old Mowat left the scene By Rob Car&k Middle 6ast policy prepared by former to join Lawlds c&ii in Ottawa, but Conservative leader Robert Stanfield in the Liberals continued to hold on. No Canada and the Arab World, edited the wake of Clark’s embassy deb8cle in wonder Whitney had such an irritable by Tarcq Y. Ismael, University of 1979. The report advocated a posture of disposition. Afta r&e successive vie Alberta Press, ?A% pages, 824.95 cloth “fair mindedness” and called for just& tories, the ~18erals f* i0st to (ISBN 0 88864 085 4) and 514.95 paper and reconclliatlon to be Canada’s objcc- Whitney in 1905, and “from the date of (ISBN 0 88864 086 2). tives in its Middle Bast policy. Prom all his ekctoml triumph the Conservative Canada and the Birth of Israck A accounts in Canada and Ihe Arab party in Ontario has only been out of of- Study ln Canadian Fore&n Policy, by World. the report seems to have b#n fice on two occasions.” Well, three, as David J. Bercuson, University of viewed positively by the Arabs. At the , of 1983. Toronto Press, 291 pages, 824.95 cloth defeat of Joe Clark’s government by Somehow, in some way that Humph- (ISBN 0 8@2CI 2568 4). ‘Pierre Trudeau and the Liberals, des doesn’t - or can’t-really answer, however, the report was shelved. The Whitney set off upon his course of FOR ALL tTs solemn proclamatloas of Muhoney government has simIIarIy refom~ Besidu creating Hydm and neutrality in the affairs of the Middle shown no interest. workers compensation, he carried out East, in the eyas of the Arab countries Canadian historian David Bcrcuson’s an amazing program of modernization Canada has always stood tirmly on the Canada and the Birth 4/Ismel functions of almost every instltlltion: education side of Israel. This belief is centml to the as something of a rebuttal of Cwzada (normal schools): health services. ln- arguments introduced in Canada and Ihe and rhe Arab World. Bwcuson categorl- dudll compulsory vaccination; re Arab World, a collection of essays as tally rejects the Arab contention that fomlatories instead of prisons; new UT- much about Canada’s relationship with Canada has always favourcd Israel in its ban raibvays and lines for the north; Israel as with her Arab nelghbours. Middle East policy, lllostrating through reform of &ing claims to pmtcct pros- Canada’s favourable bias toward lmpresslvely extensive research that, in pectors: and the inclusion of Catholics Israel is not documented in any state- addressing the problems of the Middle ln his cabinet. His opponents were left io mcnt of policy but in small incidents, East, Canada has served no party so wdl disarray. such as Joe Clark’s ultimately~ doomed as herself. Liquor policy, that ultimate Ontario decision to mow the Canadian embassy Bercuson’s book focuses on the years hang-up, dogged Whitney as it did Allan in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv and Grossman wars later. Yet Whitney in the more recent appointment of haqdled the-competing lobblcs of d$ Stephen Lewis as Canadiao ambassador andwtsbyshufflingitallofftolocal- to the IJ&ed Nations. Lewis is said in option votes in each municipality. His one particular chapter to be considered attitude towards the liquor qucstlon an “ardent and active Zionist” by Arab gives us an insight into what made him diplomats in Ottawa and at the U.N. so suxessful: “The Conservative chief Tarcq Ismad, the book’s editor and argued that, in urban centres at least, author of an entry titled “Canadian there was more drink cawed by poverty Foreign Policy in the Arab World,” than poverty by drink.. . . He would considers Canada’s bias to be rooted in worry about poverty fust.” its “prejudiw against Arab peoples.” Thus, both Whitney and Grossmixn Each day, he says, ‘this prejudkx - devoted their careers to meeting political along with “an ignoiancc of the basic radicalism on its own ground. Whitney issues involved in the Arab-Israeli con- fououowing the Second World War when faced only one,elccted social% in the fiict and the strength of the Zionist lob- the new19 formed U.N. attempted to House, always there as an impllclt threat by ia consolidating a negative image of solve one of its first major problems, the if social action was not taken Grossman the Arab World” - is documented in fate of Palestine. If Canada now enjoys outfought a formidable Communist the actions and statements of Canada’s the reputation of being an early sup- machll. Each maa seemed to believe political leaders and joumallsts. porter of .the Zionist cause through its that a responsive conservatism, willing Peyton Lyon, a well-known Canadian actions at the U.N.. then it doer so to change the rules but not the system, political scientist. also descnies a policy undcl false pretenccs. Ia fact, Canada

I did its best not to involve itself at all in Arabs, a realignment of Canadian POliCY ing are obvious. and Hill’s dmice of the Palestine debate, instead eontenting to be faker to the Arab camtrics, and what to enlarge upon in the c&m cryptic itself to shadow the position of the for Israel. a ComInuance of Canada’s note3 offers as much hllstration BI it British. then holding control of support - ls what makes Bercuson’s does etig&nment. We are flooded Palestine under a League of Nations history especially noteworthy. 0 with the names bf dlverse pe.c&.. most mandate. of whom are sinrgglIng in isolaWse.ttl~ One may have difticulty agreeing with mats for a seIf-sufficient ex.lstence in the assertion offered in Canada and the the hard economic rimes of the ’30s. but Arab World, but this is irrelevant. The only a few are given enough biographical book’s considerable value is that it pm- background to make them come alive. vides a rarely enwuntcred perspective Drifting our% More than that, the notion of change - on a much-discussed subject. that tbls wartal life-style is d&pear- Canada’s neutrality on the matter. af focus Ing.thatthecamleriersndmiminesaR and the solid record of its post-war closing, the fuihllg and log&g dying diplomacy, however. made it an ideal By Kewln RoberOs out. the coastal steamship co. foldbIg. pmtleipant in the U.N. pmceedings the Depression gripping tighter, and the directed at sorting out the Palestine Utwanst Summers. by Beth Hill. threat of the Second World War loom- situation. But only at the insistence ‘of Ho&al & Scbubart; 156 pages, 39.93 ing - scarcely impinger, nor does it the U.S. did Canada participate. .. paper (ISBN 0 920663 01 X). em- In the author’s embellishment of Bercuson points out that although the Burrows’s notes. Prime Minister Mackenzie King had THIS BOOK is based on the diary kept by Tbere’are II few pwzllblg thblga about dispensed pm-Zionist rhetoric on a British immigrants Francis and Amy the book’s pmdudion. The petmglyplu number of oeeasions. as had several of Burrows, wealthy hobby-farmers in or pictographs’tit so fascinatedFrancis his predecessors, he had no intention of Saanlch, B.C., who sailed their Z&foot Burrows that be pursued them endlessly providing any support for the formation cndser Toketie up the Strait of Georgia are reproduced at the begbmlng of eti of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Kii in the summers of 193341, visiting the chapter but without any explanation or saw no real national interests being islands and harbours of the “Inside discussion. Considering the number of served by involving Canada in the Coast.” The book makes interesting names mentioned, it ls no surprise that Palestine debate, as& from trying to historical reading, though the prose style the index is inadequate. And the marine harmonize the differing positions of is plain and flat - “nice trip,” “beau& maps on the first pages are not sufficient Canada’s m&r allies, the United States ful .vxnery: - they would be far more useN if and Britain. With the C&l War corn- But it lacks a recognizable fccus. We placed at the b@nnlng of each chapter mewing simullaneously, Canada felt it wander with the Burrows and their two and drawn in grcate.r,detail so that the important not to allow disagreement spanids in and out of tl&Y coastal inlets, reader could follow accurately the aver the Palestine issue to weaken the camps, and settlemeny. and with course of the Toketie. North Atlantic alliance. “Johnson” (thek outboati motor) up Also, I wonder how many readers out- With the pas&g of the Canadian rivers. We toti briefly on the lives of a side B.C. would be familiar with ~lllex- govemment leadership to Louis St. myriad of fishermen, loggers, settlers, plained terms: “humpies,” %c-see Lauent from King, greater control over. and farmers. hear the usual anecdots urns,” “peavies,” “black fish.” Canadian foreign policy went to Lester abohr beam, cougars, and wolves, and “trollers,” “&ike,” and “bluebacks”? Pearson. It was under his authorizarion listen to yams about “characters,” Similarly. Hill’s dls&ssIon of the East- that Canada fmally recognized Israel. boats; and canmew. Some of it is hope family and their famous engine This de&ion is attributed by Bercuson amusing, some of it p%icstrian. We hear omits the fascinating Cblistlan fewour about the scawnglng of IndianartIfacts, that led them to glw “equal time for declared state of I&l (though Pears& which Amy seems most interested in. Iesus” in their advatisii (llley printed was a snmmthizerl but to the need to and the innumerable photos and films “Jesus, Light of the World” at the bot- fall in -line with the commitment of (now apparently lost) that Fmncla Bur- tom of all their ads, and added the President Truman and the Americans to rows takes. The dll is full of vignettes aospels of Mark and Luke to the back the exlsteme of a Jewish state. - tinkling interminably with T&&e’s of most Eastbope engine manuals.) Bercuson is persuasive largely owing engine, playii aibbage, eating meals Deserted and looted village.% decayiDs to the exhaustiveness of his research. As with locals, doii jobs, and taking expe- or stolen totem poles, desecrated mid- the reader is guided &rough what seems ditions. dens, and burial housea constitute the to be literaUy every decision and discus- But only a vague picture emax= of backgmund for Amy Burrows’s lnces- sion that took place within the Canadian just who Amy and Etancis Burrows sant couectlng of beads, armwlleads. government on the Palesline question, it were. Amy rows naked, once, and Fran- bracelets, and other Indian artifacts. rapidly becomes obvious that, at least as cis loves food. They don’t want to visit Francis picks up a skull he thinks might far 3.s the origins of the state of Israel are the “famo~ Barrymom of fh fame” interest his dentist. But we are not told mmxtmd, Canada played no favourites on their yacht, for some reason. Frwcis much about the one photo of hvo Indiin between Jews and Arabs. has harsh words for stock speculators of women at Karkuklwees village in 1934. The modem-day ramitications of the Julie, Alexandra, and Hercules Apart from a few “wlsc” quotations Canada’s mle. when viewed @ainst the mina on Phippr Arm. lhey like their (old chief Bdward’s “‘I&en are plenty ironIcally similar claims by Arabs and dogs and admire well-kept farms. But in of salmon but they are scarce,” and Zionist groups that Canada has always the end these two people emerge as Francis Burrows’s self-betraying corn- been a staunch supporter of the Zionist shadowy figures we d&t really know; ant, “I expect a l,ot of good stuff has cause. are dealt with only briefly by Ber- Beth Hill, the author, appears to lack been looted, as Indians are always care- cuson. Tbii is unfortunate, because the sufficient information to flesh out Ia in leaving everytblng lying about”), manner in which both sides of the Arab- character or to expand events. the Indians are an lmexpIabled. ghost Israeli diipute have co-opted Canadian The llbnitations of the diary entricr in like pnwnce. history to suit their ends - for the both depth and breadth of understand- Indeed, this distance from kbe

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An lrreverult Account jut scmtched thq surface, ihat we’relost wrote a devastating - end accurate - of fife in Weshingten, by Sandra Got- anelysis of Thatcher’s character in the in ell the detail, that en importmU pet- lieb, Maanillan. 208 pages, $18.95 cloth ter” or shape or insight about these mm& of hi judgement in the custody (ISBN 0 7715 9899 5). , times should be thqe but isn’t. In the ~&XI Thatcher fought with his ex-wife. And Thatcher also drops this tantalizing md. the book does llot irradiate its A SIXECT~N of Sondm Gotlieb’s regular materiel, but merely reflects it. 0 I& into his book: “I em not the male newspaper columns, “Letters from chauvinist many have portrayed me to Washington,” thii irreverent book by be. but 1 concede that I have “ever the wife of the Canadian ambassador to ielated well to women.” DenJ Lkny Deny shows once egah~ the United Statea, Allen Gotlieb, is just how poorly Thatcher “related” to indeed a cultural triumph. Gotlieb has The plot one woman, Joann Wilson, his former pmved she is a writer of uncampmtis- wife and his victim. For all of us who% ing talent, resourcefully drawing frdm thickens reed S&gins’s and Bird’s books, this is material at the end of her nose - in this familiar territory. But it remains a case, the edges of her dinner plate - to By Jack Batten to+ly absorbing story, and pert of the write what she knows but. appeal in ploughiw through a third tell- Gotlieb’s accmmts of life in official’ Backmoms: A Story of Polltics, by ing is to search out new material or fresh Washington come in the guise of a series Colin Thatcher. Western Producer eagles. The two Wilsons don’t let us of letters to her bat friend, Beverley, in Prairie Books, til psges, 518.95 cloth down. Largely that’s because Garrett Ottawa. But Gotlieb is nowhere “ear the IISBN 0 88833 173 81. Wilson is .a senior Regina lawyer who Canadian bumpkin she makes the writer Deny Deoy Deny-The Rise end Fell has had personal or professional deal- of these letters appear to be. She uses her of Calin Thatcher. by Gerrett Wilson ings with almost all the major playus in intelligence to assert repeatedly some of end Lesley Wilson,. James Lorimer, 340 the drama. The other Wilson, Wesley, is the realid& of Canada, e country she pages, $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0 88882 922 2) Garrett’s daughter. e freelance wits respects, loves, end even seems to miss. and $16.95 paper (lSBN 0 88882 9214). who covered the trial for a Prairie news- Hq friend Beverley - an independent wo- whose husband George is her PePw. mu mouom mm8 wasn’t mom for The Wilsons stem to have bee” parti business partner (they own e muffm any more Colin Thatcher books? ulerly chwmny with the police detectives shop) - serves es her alter ego. Wmng. Here are two more, one from who spent a year end e half putting A Weshiiton socialite, Popsie Ttiib- the convicted murderer himself and together the case against Thatcher, and ble, acts es Gotlieb’s second alter ego. another that offers a slightly different wtio have opened UP their memories&d Tribble knows the .ropes, and when approach to en account of the Thatcher fdes to the two authors. The materiel is Gotlieb can’t bring herself to say things trial than we received in other books by intriguing stuff and giver the book a “ice the way she reads them, she uses Trib- Maggie Siggins (A Canadian iPage@, focus. So does the runnjng commentary ble. Tribble ticks off the categories of Maanillan) and Heether Bird (Not Powerful Jobs for Sandra - adminis- Above the Law, Key Porter). tration, congress, lobbyists, and the Colin Thatcher’s own book sticks press. She also tells Sondm that Power- abnost exchuively to. politics, specifi- ful Jobs mmk to partis to trade infor- cally to Thatcher’s adventure.5 es a mation with other Powerful Jobs they Seskatchewe” Liberal MLA who cmss- haven’t made contact with during the ed over to the Tories. ended up in the day. Sandra passes on Tribble’s infor- cebmet when the Conservatives deft+ mation to her friend Bevedey: the NDP government in April, 1982, end Powerful Jobs become Protitabk Jobs ws tossal out of his minister’s job by when Powerful Jobs leave govemmem. Premier Grant Devipe in January, 1983. Rofilable Jobs em more sociable unless o”e week to the day before he murdered they suffer from “decomprerrion,” e his ex-wife. Thatcher is a fairly able , Weshin&n cede word for. PII cmo- tional stetc caused by loss of power. \.:riter, and he seems blessed with total ClosbTo’s don’t have Powerfu~Joba or rem8 in this tale of the twisfi and turns Pmfitable Jobs. They are people the of hi life in end around the legislatwe. that Wilson St.. the old pm of the court- Candidate trusu; they have power 10 Still, the book’s appeal will be mainly to rooms, offers-of the handling of the trial whisper in the ear of the Candidate on citizens of Saskatchewan and to political by crow” end defence. He poinrs out the behalf of others. A reel CloroTo never scientists who specialize in the minutiae goofs end the lriumphs end sounds con- hes pollticel ambitions. which might of provincial politics. vincing in the pmeus. The book r&o cause the Candidate diit&s. Par the rest of us, Backmoms is makes clear one fact. if anyone doubted AU the code words are real enough to valuable only for whetever light it “&ht it: justice was done at the Colin be universal but the individuals who pley shed on the murder case. Ales, that’s not Thatcher murder trial. 0 the pats are pointedly drawn if not per- sonally named. Of the entire cast, Mr. you spoke a foreign language; Sondm people don’t rcally.carc what they cat or Ambassador is the mosl remote, though gets annoyed, rebutting. “We do, we’re drink. But they know if the fare is not as Gotlieb manages a few 1ineJto show that bilingual, so we speak Prench.” impressive as their power.” he, like all persons well into mid-life, At a dinner in honour of Canada’s Generally the mood of the book ls one t te”ds to bccotpe a parody of himself. prime minister, Sandra becomes Ihrious of frivolity, a sort of party in itself, a” For instance, if Mr. Ambassador ha%‘t when nobody seems to notice the Cana- intimate mceti”g with an audience Son- read a “nvspapcr in more than 24 hours. dian national dlsha she goes to gt‘eat dra Gotlicb certainly dcstics and may he suffers withdrawal symptoms. trouble to pmvidh Guests mistake the awn prefer. In her candid introduction As “wife of” Mr. Ambassador, beaver-lail soup fo conromm6 with gris- she tells readers that writing comer more Gotlicb has gusts to the embassy tie, and not one person rccognizcs that naturally to her than being dignilied. residence for her country’s sake. When the mousse is made with Canadian ‘Thii proteSt ably l”forms her work: the Pop& Tribble tells her. “YOU have a maple syrup. Popsle Trlbblc immb u”dic.ssl”g of public pemndities. Cer- havy burden in this country. Canada is diitcly universalizes the wound to hn tainly it keeps readers ghzcd to her text justnotchii.. . it would be more 14%if hostess’s national pride: “In Powcrtown and may e.wmwin a Leacock medal. 0 ,:.

Double trouble Though two novelists base their plots . on remarkabl similar situations, they-end up wlth amazing 7y dlfferent books

By Douglas G/over NTOORONTO,in 1915, a l’lyear-old fect of his devastating dcconstructio” of in to tell us what will happen to this or English maid named Carrie Davies the Massey myth (we see mostly the that chamcta far in the thtwc) and the shot and killed her employer, warts - they come off in Jones’s vcr- n6velist. But, on balance, I think the Charles “Bert” Massey. sclo” of sion as hypoaitical, vindictive. petty, novelist winr. the wealthy and upright Massey squabbli”g snobs). Sarah Sheard’s novel Almost Japssee~ I family. Suspiclcms that But had Joncr, a. columnist at the Toronto (Coach HOUK, I26 pager, $6.95 paper) tried to molest the girl prompted SW, is clearly a newspaperma” of the bears a startling resemblance to the win- the publicity-wary Massays to old school, a carlow, skeptical humanist, ner of the Seal Books fint novel prize, A attunpt a cover-up by having to whom the scent of covwup is always Certain Mr. Takahashi by Am Ireland. Canie shunted into a” insane irresistible. But Masfer and Ma/d takes Both books deal with a” adolesce”t asylum without a trial. But him far beyond the usual “ewsma”‘s girl’s obswsion with a Japanese n”ui- crusading newsman Archie Fisher brief - it, is a carefully constructed cian (Sheard: conductor, mid-3Os,d+s of the Tefegmm broke the story, raising novel that moves dclibcmtely from sce”e a while Camaro; lrcla@: pianist. ‘bh”ost a storm of public mntmversy. Ulti- to sane, each scene designed to ll- 30, drives a black Thunderbird) who mately, Car& was found not guilty by happens to move into the house “ext za” all-male jury and set free, thus prov- door. .Both girls keep a log of his ing, as one mntemporary~joumalist put comings and goings. observed fmm a it, “then is a fate worse than death.” bedroom window. Both bake hi some- tink Jones’s Iictkmallzxl account of thing by way of intmduchtg themselves the Massey murder case, Master and @ro\vnlcs, a cake). Both snoopin his Maid (Irwin, 337 pages, $19.95 cloth), is belongings when he’s out of the mom. a fascinating and sympathetic portrait of ‘Both keep bits of memoraldlia. Bath the people, the place, and the era. Jones loiter in the strcat waiting for hhn to sees Carrie Davies as a focus for the drive home from rehearsal. And both aspirations and cmssxwrants of an age: suffer for years ‘after he has left the impact of the Jazz Age., the First Toronto, until, in fact, they both meat World War, and the manufactwing him one last time and cxorclze the old boom on staid, buttoned-up Toronto; ghost. “ascot feminism; politi~l corruption; Remarkably, though both Shcard and classism, upstairs-dowtxtairs shcnani- Ireland start fmm much the ssme place gag, and aristocratic hypocrisy (some (material and theme), they end up with of his writing is nsminiscent of John, amazingly dlffere”t’“ovds. A Certain O’I-Iata); the treatment of the insane; Mr. Takahashi is tightly plotted and the l@ay of partisan journalism. (perhaps a touch oyer-plotted), richly Dealing as it does with sexual ignor- textured, and written in a style that is ance and sexual c&u, MaCrer and oRen lyrical. AlmosI Jlyxmerc. by mm- Mald could have been lurid or facctioas patiron. is flat. hndcr-plotted, and or both. But the ovenid@g fcli”g o”c luminatc some aqcct of TOIO”~O’S litaral. Here are the two protagonists gets is that Jones carts for hi characters social history while at the same time ad- fantaslalng about their new neighbow. in the sense that ha is careful about not vancing a plot tlmt remains suspc”saful Sheard: _ selling them short, &ha by sensa- When he walkedamu.nd outride did he tionalkdng them or by mockllg them. throughout b&en the journalist (occa- hear things differently? Could be mad This approach somewhat softens the ef- sionally the omniscient narr%or b&La symphony scored ar easily as books? ._ .

Did he speak English? War he lonely In Japan, what we get reads more like takes one’s breath away. Jehovah twos il city whae M cue spoke Japacue? travelogue than part of a novel about out to be a rather whiny, male Imlattd: teenage love. chauvinist. hasty, bloodthirsty sort of World Famous. cot quite thirty rears Memclrs of God fLoae Pine. 219 guy who through the course of the book old. and perhaps (dare we kcSgble?) pages. $8.95 paper). ‘by ucmeoi I.& (hii trial by other deities from other lcn& In a new city. Dii he speak bcvita, is ooe man’s attempi .r) IOL~C, possible universes and his subsequent 6cglishl We asked amund. Some. He once and for alI, certain &4ing adventures on earth) learns about the spoke Music, the word that was still a equality of women, the evil of genocide, mocha - in cur hearts, a blecdtt and other up-to-date notions -yet fails centre OFdiiclving sensualityWC were signally to come to .gtips with, say, sc eager to swncw. , Marxism. Islam, or Vatican II. Leibovitz When Ireland writes a scene, Sheard seems not to have read say work of will write a setttettce. She&J: theology or philosophy more recent then I began tc kec~ a windowlog. Jetwniah. Iteland: Memoirs of God 1s only margittally My b&corn washigh cc the third Floor . mom tnterestiog on the attisttc Wet. Facing the street - and his hcuse. Them might jttr have been enough Ccl.%& was dcwnstatrs at the back dramatic material here for a whimsical Facingocly treesand alleyway. but she short story along the lines of Bernard nevercumpldced. I had a dIpboard tc’ “philosophical” problems in the Malamud’s “Angel Levine” or one of whidt 1 fiicd scvcml sheeu OF graph Jttdaec-Christian tradition. It is very Isaac Bash&s Singer’s haunted com- paper and so began the Chart. Like a thinly disguised as a ttovel about God edies, but it is completely squandered as detective I noted everytbiw, In cc. a framework for tedious chapters of ccnsenseFactual Form . . .I took care beittg deprived of his omtdpoteace and acttcbcsca.TctbismdIdeviscda sent to earth to live with us humans. The argumatt and proof. Really, what are pe&pc asing paper towel ml!s and story is told fmm God’s point of vie% we to make of pages in which characters . . . . Bat is it really God? Leibovitz plays coy, say thii like: “Ccnsidr thii minimal mnfiguraticn The biiest techttical probl& the nesting hi novel in a wria of introdue- tioas attd prefaces. It could be that we ! which Feelsthe minimat renratica of wthors face is how to keep the Japanese existena. Rmnwc a sindc one OFthe N arc only mading the raviogs of a mad- musician In the book after he’s left atcau snd the sensation would disap Toronto. Ireland succeeds throwb two man, io camerated in an asylum in pear. The property OFminimally Fe4ing devices: (1) She tells the story of the Frattce for thinking he’s God. atstmce ia not inhcrect in toe OFthese adolescent relationship in a setiep of Leibovitz’s conception of God stalls N atoms. but is a ccllectiveproperty OF flashbacks distributed tbmughoot her at such a level of puerility that it fairly the N atcms.” novel. (2) She invents a plot itt which the protagonist’s sister actwIly goes ott seeiog and sleeping with the musiciatt. Sheard fails to come up with any solu- tion. Except as he is bodied forth in her heroine’s somewhat abswa and tmcoo- vinciog yearnings, her male lead just disappears until the tioal scene of the SOMETHING novel. This is att itttmsting study in real-life reversal: books publiied by literary presses are often supposed to be more imagbtative, risk-taking, and “wtitteo” FORMRY’BODY than books published for the mass Now, 206 publications to choose from! market. Itt this case, the opposite is true. . A Certain Mr. Takahashi is far richer in _------, -- bnagety. stylistic complexity and felici- ty, character, and humour. Where r---- Shemd’s protagonist is just aa-adoles- he new 8W86 Canadian lease send me the new 85/86 CPPA cent girl, Ireland’s is a musician - and Periodical Publishers’ catalogue. I enclaw my oheque for Ir&td plays throughout her novel with TAssociation catalogue is P$2 to cover postage and handling. the mu&musiciau motif. m&ii it the one _wmrcethat describes resonate, addiag meaning, expanding 206 of the latest and best and complicating. Canadian magazin’bs. NWE Where Shea&s protagonist thmks, There’s 811incredibly wide “I love the i&a of grow& mbdatttm variety of topics, points of view tree& raking gravel btrn patteros, and special interests. ADDRESS pushing six square feet of dii into a They’re all yours to choose I dream garden.” Ireland’s actually does fmm when you get our current UN PXCW. it. Ireland weaves Japanese lore and catalogue with its easy to use myth through her novel, always as an detachable order Form. I POSTAL CODE expression of character or the Fill in the attached CO”po” character’s obsession. Shcard has much today and Forjust 32 (to cover less lore at her fingertips. and wbett her pwtage and handling). we’ll 2 Stewart Street, protagotlist actudly makea a trip to send you our new catalogue. I Toronto. Ontario I -I M5V lH6 Btcl I Bagdad (Mscmlllan, 22.4 pages, fmit! Thcfnrll is ripe1 01 Rip Fmftl’ ” parody; if it Is, it’s bad parody. Perhaps $15.95 cloth) is half of a sillypseudo- I-I~XP,is the Grand Vi&r descrlbll it is meant to be funw_ but.if SO, it is the Arabian fantasy w Ian Dennis (accord- the Empress’s lesbian lover: sort of humour you ~0 acm& to coo- ing to his publisher, “a computer whiz tests to see who can write the worst “She is indeed Iulgenl,” he mumwed, opening sent&e of a novel. I catI at Queen’s Park”). Its loose plot “posrarcd of a form. whose full revolves around a religlo-political one- charmscan but narrowly be surpassed. understand finding one badly written man revolution in ancient Syria. Supple, lithe and Sssom- another cer- sentence funny - but mo pagesof Throughout the narrative the author tain disquiaencl of poets. With such them? interpolates Arabian Nigh&h “tales.” thick black hair. and vls@e aotic and Worse, it’s not even finished. Bagdad such as the story of how the prot~nist sharp-boned,likq a t??urureslashed fmm ends, as it were, in mid-careen, with the is mnceived while his mother is being subterraneanmck by the rdmitar of protagonist, leader of the “Ripe Fruit raped by an Utif. The noble woman sc.z.;~~mAdamilc sultan of the lower Party,” disappearing into his tent to resolw not to enjoy the rape, but has a have sex with one of his followers, a sort of involuntary orgasm when a piece This ir what the French critics, quite young man caIled only “the yomwnau- of fruit falls on the @iii’s back. ” ‘O! rightly, would call dead language, empty lover.” We are promised/threateaed O!’ cried out she in her chagdn. ‘The of meant-. I don’t thbdf. it ls meant as with a sequel later this yex. 0

Robert Harlow ‘A novel is often considered to be an entertainment. But the best novels always try to get to the bottom of a problem’

By Geoff Hancock

OBBRT HARLOW was born in wrIted workshop at the IJnIvenity of quartersand be near the people who Prince Rupert, B.C., in 1923, and Iowa, Harlow joined the CBC as a were running it. Here’s a country that’s grew up in Prince George, the set- public affairs producer. and in 1953, been overran for 1,000 years. invaded ting of his LIndon trilogy: Royaf with Robert Weaver, created the radio back and forth from the Teutonic Murdoch @lscmillan, 1962). A program Anfhologv. In 1959, Harlow knights to the Germans in the last war, G@ o/Echoes (MacmiUm, 1965). joInedIs& Biiey and others to start and they are still Polish. Talk about a and Scann (So00 Nls, 1972). His the literary magazine Prim Inlerm- sense of identity! fourth book. Making Arrange- ffonlrl. In 1963he became foqnding head BiC: Fe/ice, in her tmvelogz% a.bo ments (1978) - IecauY reissued of the creative writing department at the IRWILTabout living in Canada qf~er her by M&U&d & Stewart - is a University of British Colombia, a posi- trip to Poland. comic novel about horseracing. tion he held until 1911. I-IarIow coo- Ha&w: I’ve been interested for a long 3eIland & tbmes to teach at UBC and at the time in oppression. As Canadians we are wvart, 1983) is an expl&oion of emo- Ganaraska Writers’. Colony In Port cultwlly oppressed by our next-door tional failure. After atten$ing the Hope, Out. On a recent vlslt to Torpnto neighbow. Russia is as bll to Poland as he spoke to Geoff Hancock about his the U.S. is to us. I had gone to Poland to new novel, Felice: A i’hwelowe (00% msearch a Semnd World War story. but cban), which came about after a trip to I never got past W&saw. A diffezeat Poland: story happened to me. I realized that I needed. to bring somebody hur who Books In Canada: What does Poland would be open enough to see some Iman to you? pad&, and also get to the bottom of Roberl Har1c.w: France, Spain, Italy, herself. I didn’t want her to get iaMec- and England are tourist places for Cana- tually what oppression was. but to get it dians. but Poland Is central Europe. physicaIly in her body aad soul. Then I Poles live a life very differeat from any wanted her to walk away from it a free other people 1 have run into. There are and powerful person. few places for tourists. Poland is a cooa- Bit2 WCITthe chamcler o/Felice ahvays try with a lot of money. but ~10goods to in your mind, or. did you discover (I buy. Fhmilles spend their days waiting in Jungian mdma mpect ofyourse~ . food lines. Despite this, Poles love Hadow: I diseovmd the anima aspect. I Rowers, dogs, kids. They have great originally thooght of writing a story poster art, and they are great eapineers. about a mao going to Poland, but mm They are also great jazz players, with in our culture are not considered to he ensembles as good as any in the world. oppressed. I thought it would be wrong !! ’ Blc: When wen you in Poland? to sad an American there. If what hap- 3 Herlow: At the peak of Solidarity’s pened to Felice happened to an k power. Nine million people had joined Amerlcao, they would have returned 5 this group. It was an emotional wcperi- sod bombed the place. So I was forced eace. People had come from aU over the more and more into a book that had a !2 world just to sit in their Warsaw head- woman’s sensibiiltles. She went as a % I - woman and as a Canadian. That’s two adventures that happen to her. By the Bit? Can oppressors ever be forgiwt? kinds of oppression right there. I also time she gets to Auschwitz, it’s all down: . Can Germaw ever .5? forgiven? You needed someone who could be open. I hill from them. The last couple of hun- make it clwrb~ Felice lhit t;hcanswer ir don’t think mm are that open. They dredpagesareveryfast. probably 110. struggle in different ways. BlC: Da you still see the now/ OSuj7& Harlow: I make hw points in the book. BiC: WriIiw out of a female point of ble form? One is that if you’go far enough down to view is new for you. Was it pmblem- Harlow: It’s the most flexible form in the bottom forgiveness is thsre. Some atid? the world. It has no limits. Perhaps Gsrmans have pmbsbly forgiven them- Iinrlow: I held tightly onto the fact that selves. It’s important. One character some of the best novelists in history have says. “We sentenced the Gcrmans~ to witten out of the consciousness of the life, and then suspended thqsentence so opposite sex. I thought I’d give it a try. I we wouldn’t have to forgive them.” didn’t find it diffcult. I think thur is g That’s a double way of dealing with great deal of the female in males, and oppress&s. I hope the book is not anti- vice versa. When I was through I check- Gsrmsa. But I wsntsd to make it dear ed with some women friends, some in there is a personal responsibility to be their 40s. some in their 6Os, to see decent, to be a real person. . whether I had gotten it. Most agreed I I wss a bomber pilot in that war. had. What made me angry when I visited Bit2 The book starts off fairly simply. Auschwitz wss that Churchill. Roose- 27~ fami& gels on the boat, takes (I velt, and the Pope knew - and if they journey, then relums. But you’ve had told me, I would have known - layered if soether things start happen- that this was where the war was. The war @. technical experiments have gone as far as wasn’t in German, cities and French . towns. Tbe war WBPwhere six million Iinrlow: The travelogue was the they can: But the ex~er@+lor~ that.. technical vehicle on which I could pile peofile were,killed for no rearon. It isn’t the other material sad nm it alon& I content. Nistszche said the most radical just the Gcmxms. Every day, some also designed the novel as if it were a thing you can do is get to the bottom of country hap massaere~ - terriblethlhings train. It starts slo\vly, and gradually a problem. A novel is quite ofta con- happen to people. This is what the picks up speed. Felice becomes mtwe in- sidered to be an entertainment, which it Auschwitz suwIvor says to Felice: valved and more open and more is. But the! best novels always try to get “When I got oat I thought the world motivated by the physical and ntenfbl to the botlom. would change.” But it hasn’t. q

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Pumdke Lost is replete with Biblical Moore’s review of Bycntial Words An Shlobne Perel obscurities and obliqueness. But the”, Anrkology of Jewbh Canadian Poetry Montreal perhaps, Moore does not read Milton. (November), and having en interest in Ha style suggepls that she does not. I tbe subject, I decided to test her evelua- IN HER &VIEW of Seymour Mwne’s em oat Jewish “or am I learned in tie” directly. Now, having read the Essential Won&: An Anthology. of Jnvish lore. yet I found Ekntid K’ordr book, I am forced to condode that in a Jew&h Cqmdian Poelry (November) very eccessible. personal perceptual sense, Moore in Kethleen Moore scolds a number of the To Moore’s objectlon that the poe”u . effect reed a somewhat differentwork. contributors and suggests that it is sane- in &entiu/ Words are exclusive end in- The poun she displays as ampIlfyl”g how unC&nadian for, Jewish poets to the “narrow-mindedness” of the testlfv to their reel exoerience of Canada anthology - George Jones’s “Once if it happens to cont&ict her vision of More” - in fact criticizes anyone who Caneda es the’plece where we most ell 1 passivdy accedes to murder, not only dap hands end sing the songs she likes anti-Semites. The first two lines toeetha. She comolains of “Biblical (Moore’s excerpt begins on the thll) &e”ees O~SCUI~to the “on-Jew” - make this dear: “Kirov was short, Solon sorely her own shortcoming and one not will rot in jell,/weo tbesomllw~ hold-up sh&d by most literate genriles I know. solar, a “dialogue OF J&v with Jew man will hang.” Jones nowhere implies Further, any&me who knows our OW” rather than . . . Cenedliis who also that “only Wasps are capable of bnpos- recent history knows that Canada threw happen to be Jewish,” I would reply: so ing stereotypes.” open its doors to Nazis and fascists eRer is Alexender Pope, in Epi#/e to Dr. Does the anthology provide us with a the war while still malntebdng restric- Arbuthnot. Not very sccessible is our representetivc selection, a mirror of tions on the immigmtion of Jews, end Alexander, end VW lltemti to fellow modem Canadian Jewish poetry7 Ca” would therefore oercelve immcdietelv lltaati. Nonetheless, a fine poan. God- one study it to get en accurate sense of tbe point of the George Jonas poem, ii in-Guinbootsl Has it cane to tblr that \vhat has ban written? To these quu- which he reflects on his neiahbours, snd Jew ought “ot to address Jew, "or Men- tlons. I would have to answer “Yes.” which she quotes et lengrh and &my nonite address Doukhobour unless OIIB Unlike Moore, I fail to see the pletely misinterprets. It is insulting emi subject .f eesy ecccss suchas the Wheat “narrow-mindedness” or the “UC- certainly has nothing to do with literary Pool or K, e Milk Board? elusive” in the cdIectlon, “or do I see it considerations to mad a review in which Whet I found most rewarding in my in tbe rather ethnocentric eccusation of I em told whet I should write and what I reading of the book wes the discovery of “an insular dialogue of Jew with Jew, niust not write. regardless of the urgency a universal and reaswing humanity in rather than as Canadians who also hep- and validity of my paceptlons, 0” pain this dialogue of Jew with Jm..The poets pen to be Jewish.” of incurring the dlspleeswe of the peo- there reaffirm the paramount im- Ironically, two of the four poems ple with fragileI&my rcsourasand peratives of tradition, its importance to described by Mdore as “tine pieces,” restricted es well es restrictive mnsciouk community, its profound relevance to those by Avi Boxer, express the intense ness who are, es she obviously sees the shaping of a literary style. They Jewish alienation in the world that she herself, the legitbnate Canadians. focus oo the resonences of history end appears to reject as a legitimate nntral Moore suggests that this anthology how these echo in the life of the indivi- focos for a Canadian Jewish poetry should have been modelled on i7ze dual. anthology. Precious Legqy, a smell selection fmm Moore ‘should bd reminded that Furthermore. liioore dabns that the thousands of religiousartifacts collected cultural diversity is not confined to book’s taminologlcal and religious by the Germans from the hundreds and tither ethnic scbnmlz (gate fish and references “bar easy eccess ecmss the hundreds of Jewish communities they bagel! at the cesy-eccess corner delica- cultural border.” It happens that out of destroyed. She likes the idea of joining tessen) nor to cultoml exotica (The the 94 poems only 13 “se Yiddish or hands in quiet piety end cd~brating the Precious Legacy exhibition). If Moore is Hebrew words. Some are defined within fact that some few survived. I find her so moved by Jewish art, she&t have the poem, some are very familiar (i.e. denmnd for a blinkered, ~atefol, on- sought to find some evidence of a tollirh aiph or Kaddish). The great m+.ritY Of disturbing ert pretty chilling. Just go on or a t#Jtin on display to dispel her on- pawns do not contain obscoie rellglous singing “Memmy” and do your buck fmnilierlty with these terms. It is dif- references. Still, a second edition would end wing. No,tbaoks. I have higher ficult to ‘imeglne e”yo”e who claims be improved by a glossary. hbpes for Canada. familiarity with the work of A.M. Klein The general alternative suggested by Adele Wiseman having trouble with e minyan or a Moore is, I believe, a pmpegandlstic Tom”to Twdik. one: “a joyful tone for an anthology” The anthology ls iso rebuked for its and “a celebration together witb all I READ wmi mixed fcdlngD of incred- “[email protected] vision of Jewish fate.” its lack of Canadians of one oeoole’s oerticolar ulity end dismay Kathleen Moore’s joy. The Holocaust wes “ot a cheering gifts.” This would-impose s precon- review of Seymour Mayne’s anthology, experience1 Centuries of persecution ceived thematic straitjacket upon the an- Bsentiat Wo&. The review strikes me may well incline the persecuted to a thology. as a ranerkebly obtuse and huensitive mdancholy habit of mind. Nor is the in- If therr are con”“o” threads mn”i”g reading. Moore’s complaints arc not vldious comparison Moore mekes with through Canadian Jewish poetry, they only trivial but lrrdevant. Easy eccus as The Precious Legacy valid. Essential will be far better explored by osing .tie a criterion for literary and cultural Words is. in part, e record of the conse- quence in the ipdividual liver of Jews of to wax eloquent about the “handful of i theco”ceatratedeffortoftheNazisto I thiok I a”l very’far from b&g cauous. stoic souls” she describes lovingly and at destroy what The Precio!ts Legacy As for Jonsr’s poem, I did not length in her letter. One gets the impra- celebrated. misread it. I quoted the passage that sion that the purpose of her letter was More serious is Moore’s misreadii of typifies its attack on the ‘specifically not so much to criticize me as it w~li to Ge.orSe Jonas’s poem, “Once Mom.” Christian Canadians it calls p”blicize her ca”se. nds is not the imposition of a stereotype “murderers” of the Jews. Fiame”go Uearly I misunderstood. I thought I on the gentile character; it is a comment must be fooling herself if she thinks that was mi ‘ng poetry: Yates expected me on the ubiquitous potential for evil ia a” author is incapable of expressing his to nuk r the nukes. Yates writes, the soul of everyma”, be he Wasp, Jew, ~wll intolerance (lmwev&r understand- “PerImps Carpenter thinks, as I expect Teuto”, or Slav. able or u”@aracteristic) in some of bi readers of the review would conclude, What is io the end most disquieting in work; or that o”ce such expression has that Roberts has forsake” literary iat.+ Moore’s review is her uneasiness with bee” put into print. it can be rationalized grity to include in his suite of poems the what is not a commonplace of ha own away with elevated .and elasticized war-angst theme because it is a current experience and her antipathy to the exe&s. Contrast with Jonas’s poem, topic of common concern and UUI be legitimately recondite - in short, anti- for example, the work of Abmbsm Sutz- slotted easily into literary works.” What iotellectualism. Giveo these apparent @ver, inwperb translation by Seymour a selfatiog and irresponsible accusa- inclinations, Moore might do better to Mayne and others. I am persuaded that tionl At no point in my review do I make give up on books about Jewish culture Swkever. poet and Holocaust survivor such a suggestion. and religion as such books err, as Moore 1 who w+&on the one hand pewscuted Reader, a momem of your time. Find has pointed out, in the directions of the by murdering gemiles and on the other your back issue of Books in Canada, recondite and the rigours of meta- befriended and saved by geotiles - October, 1985. Turn to page 7.6. Read physics. She might well eonskier books would have more seasitivity than to my review. Am I unjustly slandered7 on comparative cuisine. bang them ail from the same gallows for Am I out of line to suggest tha’r Yates be Marya Fiameago a poefic q&ctl more judiis that she be less bloody west Va”co”vex, B.C in p”rsui”g her goals; that she take a POETRY AND PEACE long walk off a short pier7 I would of Kathleen Moore replies: My remarks PBRHAPS SUSAN YAWS (letter, course love to cover the event she refers about special Jewish rermiaology were J;\nuary/February) should have been to for Sic. but I don’t think it likely that made, not because I do not understand give” the job of reviewing Kevin it would fly me out. I’d like to go. I’ve them. but because I do understand them Roberts’s fine book of poetry, Nanoase “ever been to Naaoose Bay. and felt that readers were beiog sbort- Buy Suite. It would have provided her J.D. Carpenter changed of vital detail in the absence of with an eve” wider platform from whii Toronto a glossary. Fiameogo has twisted my words to create an excuse for hers. I did nol say the exceUe”ce of a poem depends o” its “accessibiity.” I did say this collection (the overall quality of whose writing I still do not consider high), would have benefited from a glossa&, which could also have included what I referred to as . “Biblical referencesobscure to the non- Jew,” not what Fiamengo implied I called “biblical obscurities ” 6 Education is a valuable gift of hope, interaction.and self-suh&cy. A gift thal has1 Not only am I fairly &I versed in 1 to be passed on. what she calls “Jewish lore.” but I have For 25 am we have been supporting literacyprograms IF been a sludeat of Kabbalistic dourine. 1. mover r 0 developing nations. Pas&m cmthe basic ‘” : with all its implications of intense in- tellectualism. I am equally a student of and the reaRzationof human ootential. Bv sendina structurally related areas of spiritual discourse ia other religious traditio”s. I have, moreover, received my poetic ini- tiation in direct line from A.M. Kl*n by way of two his apt students, both of them anthologized in Easenlilrl Womlr However. I still have a mind of my owe and can judge for myself whetherpr oat a book achieves its stated aims. CaUo”snes~ on my part eonceming the Holocaust is insinuated. Iiaviog fo- authored a childrea’s play for a Mont- real Synagogue - Samson in modem dress as the hero of a Jewish freedom movement in Russia - and having writ- ten a poetry course for a Montreal school program, subsequently used by special request as part of a children’s educational project o” the Holocaust in

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