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Aug-Sep80.Pdf The Art of Canadian P4ah.m Photography Edited by J.A. Kraulis s A spectacular collection of 115 glossy, full-colour ,I photographs capturing the magic, the grace, and the beauty of the Canadian outdoors. One of the most beautiful books ever published, a true celebration of i nature. $27.50 Canadian Newspapers ia0 Great cana~ns The Inside §tory The Joy of Football George Woodcock Edited by Walter Stewart Eric Nicol & Dove More Vitid accounts of the lives of 100 A wry controversial, behind the A hilarious look at football, in the men and women who havs scenes look at the newspaper irreverent tradition of the accomplished the extraordinary. industry in Canada. 15 top bestseller, The Joy of Hockey. Beautifully illustrated, as journalists tell all! A fascinating For sports fans, and everyone entertaining as -it is infomrative. inquiry. $14.95 who loves to laugh! $9.95 Paper $12.95 Cloth $18.95 HURTIG PUBLISHERS Available at your favourite bookstore 10560. 105 Street Edmonton. Alberta T5H 2W7 2 Books In Canada. August-SspIsmber. 1980 7&-~~.li,.-~~L1 _..*_.~irbT>*i.... -. ..L-&-z x-._ ._________ The chiefglory of every people arisesfiom its authors. - Samuel Johnson DO UN by Roger Keenc and David C. Photograph of Barbara Amiecby John FEATURES Humphrryr 17 Reeves Contemporary Qnebee Crttfcism. Drawing by Rudy McToots The Ni$t That Ends the Debxwh. edited by Lany Shcuddii 18 Dmwings throughout the issue by Robin Mathews reviews Hugh Tine Sbuma Incident, by Michael MacLennan’s first book in 13 years. S0lOlltOll 20 Voices in Time 4 Land of a Thousand Sorrows: The CONTRIBUTOR8 . BmcI?5 Mludmeabi. C.P. stay Amtralfm Rfson Jomud, weighs the historical merits of Piem lE4IHSd2, of the Rxiled Camdfen TherrraCarrDUler~wolkrrortheCaIh~icNew Berton’s anecdotal account of Ihe Patliote. Frm*Malwice Tinrer and has no Ciman ambidcms. Michael War of 1812. The Imwion of L.@Ueur, edited by F. Murray Constable is a Tomnta ardst. Doris Cowan is a Camda 7 Greenwood 20 Tomnm accass. critic. and eqectant motb~ Core !7>ar&. A roundup of new The liansard Chronldes: A Mlcbael Dracbe is a Tomnto ~elancer. Gary educatiorwl textbooks, by Ian.? R. Celebratfon of (he Fhst Hundred Draper teaches English aI tbe University of Hill 23 Years of Eamxwd in Canada. by Western Ontarto. Doug Fetker8ng is tbe autbm Put It PJ In. Normaa. Phil Surguy John Ward 21 of T/w Gold OiSScrr of 1929. published last fntl reports on dx marketing of Once Sam Jemmtte Duncan: Novelirt of by Macmillan. George Gait is an OUawa critic. Upon a IVoman. the Harlequin-style Empire, by The- E. Tausky 21 W~eG~dy istheedilordThlePcnguh Book o/ Canadian Shon Smries, wbtch ~81 be a- debut of a new Vancouver publishing bland SoJoum, by Elizabeth Arthur 22 vtewd in our Oclober issue. Absenting bttf house 27 The Re-CoqIederation Premier% hmn academic feltcityr wh8e. DouglasH8lbas Fen and Oink. Theresa Carrothers Ontarfa tivernment Leaders. gone fishing in Pan Kttan. Nfld. Lame R. Hill exsmina the stmnge pmlifemtion of 1841-1867, edited by J.M.S. is the bead of the history depnment at U of T’s piss in the likiary world 29 Carelers 26 Faculty of 8ducadon. CMsblP~ Hume ts a Pmmises. by Charlotte Vale Allen 28 Toronto aesthete. Scrtprwriter Rtcbnrd Lab. REVIEWS bock belongs to the Libeauian Pariy and ads_ tirer what he peaches. Judy MysoUr is the DRPARTMBNTS former editor of Apr. Review. Rabin Matbern Shoelex Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa, teaches E@isb at Cadeton University. Uavtd J. by W. P. Kinsella; The Glnce Bay In the Bqbming. by Mary Ainslie MiIrhell is an aural histmtan dlh the Pmvinctal Archives in Victoria, B.C. Regular cmmibutor i%Eozr’s Muzum, by Sheldon SItdul 32 CtiC 8 I.M. Owen has long been a uktcnl follower of A Tbowmd Words. by Christopher Hugh Hood. Peter Paterson and Jotm Reeves CenerzJ Ludd, by John Metcalf 9 Iiume 33 Fo\rer Game: The Making of a Prime an both diitinguisbed Tomnto photograpben. On the Backs, by Paul Shlewe 34 Pat Monty Reld U&-n Memu Stone, lives in f.!Urktcr, by Eupne Benson 10 Fmt Impressions, by Douglas Hill 36 Camrose, Ate.. and bar just ken apptnti Mqic Rcalkn, edited by Geoff l@ Bmwser. by Michael Smilh 37 poetry editor of Wmonton’s NeWerr Review. H~COCIC LO Interview with George McWhiir. by Toronto anist Sit1 Rusrell’s drawings have often Co&Eyed Optlmtsts, by Dorothy Amn Senkpiel 38 ~c&tberpges.Aron8~k9t~isa8wlancer O’COIlUell I2 Letters to the Editor .40 based in Vancouver. Fmdancer Sherry Slmcm hails out of the F%t of Monaeal. Novelist m Falling fn Place. by Ann Beanie 13 CanWit No. 55 41 The S?lcna Tree. by Patricia Joudry 14 Scott wrks hi jecc of birehtark in&Merson. The editors newmmmd 41 Ont. Mary Atnsley Smith mires childten and Confe~loiw, by Barbara Amiel 15 Books received 42 HawIoelr BUL: A Blograpby, by chickens in St. Maryr. 0111. C.P. Stacey ir Phyllis Gmsskwth 16 Canada’s p-e-emimnt military bistoriu~. Pad fL.L.UbTRAlTONS Stuerr is a Toronto bncdxscller and uitic. Sruccrow. by Douglas Smi61; Dmmtd Swalnson Dasher history at Queen’s Lemin& by Dennis Co&y; University. Phil Surgny is an editor at Today Inbutica Nfgbt, by Terrace Cow photoSraph of Hugh MaeIennan . _. of .” magluine.DaM~~l~isa~lancerbuedin by Peter Patason Digby, N.8. Barburn Wade is a Tcmnto Drawings by Bill Russell 4.7 fnelancex. EDITOk Douglas Marshttll. ASSOCIATE EDlTGRz Michael Smith. COPY EDITGR: Judy Margolis. ART DIRECTOR: Mary Ltt Tams. GENERAL MANAGER and ADVERTISING MANAGERz Susan Ttaer. CIRCULATION MANAGER Susan Aihoshi. CONSULTANT% Robert Famzlly and Jack Jensen. CONTRIBUTING BDlTORSz Eleanor Wachkl (West Coasty Stephen Scobie (Pntitie.s); Wayne Grady; Douglas Hill; Christopher Httme; Sheii Fischman (Quebec); Pi~il Miltta (East Coast); Tim HeaId (Europe). BF& irr Carwafa is pubtisbed 10 times a year. with the asststance of tbc Canada Council and the Omario AIIS Council. by tbe Canadian Review of Books Ltd.. 366 Ad&de Sweet Ext. Suite 432. Toronto, Om. MSA IN4. Nephone: (416) 363-3426. Available to the public faxe in subxribing bwk sbx%s. schools. and libraries. bulivtduat subscripton mtez 59.95 a yea ($15 0verrcs.s~. Back issues available on micmtilm horn: MeLyen Mttpublishing. P.O. Box 972. Smion F. Tamnto. 01% M4T 2N9. Indexed in the Canadian Paiodiwl Index. Member of the CPPA. Member of lhe Bulk Dtmtution Audit Division of CCAS. Material is commissioned on the undentandbag t@t both prtie? are bound by tbe terms of lhe stand& FWAC ~mmct. The editors mnnm by held asponrible fm umc4tcite4 mati. Second “ass M&;8k&;on No. 2.593. Contents @ 1980. Printed by Hemage Fnss Co. Ltd. ‘a August-September, 1080 Books In Canada 3 , Our trite, self-indulgent, rootless day is done, I’ Hugh Maclennan suggests in a far-reaching new novel, and we are for the dark. But the spirit of man survives by Robin Mathews Voices in Time, by Hugh MacLennae, Mecmillan. 320 pages, arc set’down on its pages. To edd to the coltoral overlay that $14.95 cloth (ISBN 0 7715 9590 0). results from his being o national institution, the sub-text of his novel as actoa cell it-whet is ptesent but umwitten - exists as A NEV. WDOVEL by Hugh MecLenneo is e major eveot. coltoml and an eoommos presiding fotre. The sob-text suggests that Caoadiaes notional. Mow then soy other living writer in Canada. MecLenoao are too innocent. that they hvee’t lamed the lessons of history. It is a nationel institution whose novels marlt steps in the couohy’s ruggeru, too. that Canadian innocence may be deegemusly like consciou5ners. Voices in Time, e hefty. suioos novel set id the German innocence before Hitler, and that we em e people capable post-dcstmction period of the world. will stir endless diiossion - of moving. with our eyes wide open, into ugly sitoetions we fueling the esteem of hi admirers, the disdain of hi detrectors. ebquld be able to foraee and prevent. MacL.emw.o plans Cana- How else could it be when a national institution releases a major dian innocence over egaiost Eqmpceo. and parttculvly Jewish statemerit that deepens and intensifies a chemcbr femiliar over Eompean. experience. decades to both hiends aed enemies alike? The story is recorded, ood mostly nanated - except for the last None of that is said in jest. MacLennee has e presence that lurks in the mind. even though nearly 13 years have passed since his last novel. It would be wrong to say he’s e one-men Cmwn corpora- tion. but there is en aura about hia name that one essociotes with tbe CBC or Air Canada 01 the Natiooal Fii Board. And sa to read P major fiction from his hen& is to reed differently then we read e novel from any other Canadian. It is to take the national pulse. to heor a progress report on mankind, to be asked to judge who we are. in this piece, oow. MecLenoen is nearing his 40th year as e published author who hss hod honoors end awards loaded onto his shoulders: the Lame Piirce Medal, the Canada Medal, five Governor General’s awerds, membership in the Royal Society of Canada. and more. But his long life es e writer and his harvest of awads have oat made him the nationzJ imtitotion be is. ‘lint has come from II dedication to the country tbet other Canadians recognize and have II deep fellow-feeling for. It now is axiomatic that - of his novels ore irreplaceable in the oational life.
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