Three reviews by Amazon customer Lamppu. I have problems with the first, disagree wholeheartedly with the second, and have no opinion on the third.
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15 September 2014
12 September 2014
University Professor Writes Roman à Clef Roman
Fasting Friar
Edward McCourt
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1963
222 pages
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08 September 2014
A Coupla Canadian Copycats
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| Carnival of Love [Mardi Gras Madness] Anthony Scott New York: Red Circle, 1949 Cover by Ray Johnson |
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| Carnival of Love [Mardi Gras Madness] Anthony Scott Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 Cover by Syd Dyke |
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| The Glass Ladder Paul W. Fairman New York: Handi-Books, 1950 Cover artist unknown |
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| The Glass Ladder Paul W. Fairman Toronto: Harlequin, 1951 Cover artist unknown |
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06 September 2014
George-Étienne Cartier at 200
Such a young country. I'm still kind of a kid – really – and yet I remember Canada's centennial celebrations. So, it makes no sense – not really – that today, 6 September 1919, should mark the 200th birthday of George-Étienne Cartier. Yet it does.
A son of Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, one hundred years after his birth, one hundred years ago today, saw the dedication of the most glorious monument in the Dominion.
The program for the unveiling, a two-hour affair, includes Benjamin Sulte's "La Statue de Cartier" and "The Statue of Cartier" by Gustavus William Wicksteed, both dating back to the 1885 installation of the statue on Parliament Hill. I think William-Athanse Baker's tribute to Cartier would've been more appropriate.
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| from George-Étienne Cartier Benjamin Sulte Montreal: G. Ducharme, 1919 |
Two hours. Imagine. Charles Joseph Doherty, Robert Borden's Minister of Justice spoke. What can we expect today from Peter Mackay?
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02 September 2014
Margaret Millar's Great Toronto Murder Mystery
The Iron Gates
Margaret Millar
New York: Dell, 1960
222 pages
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01 September 2014
Labour Day Verse for "All Good Workers"
The dedication in The Workshops and Other Poems, the only volume of verse by Florence Nightingale Horner Sherk (1857-1930), otherwise known as "Gay Page". James Hardy Sherk (1887-1975), a lawyer, was the poet's only surviving child.
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| from The Thunder Bay Historical Society: Eighth Annual Report (1917) |
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27 August 2014
The Long November in Late August
"Mysterious" is the word I used when first describing James Benson Nablo. This was four years ago. I'd just finished The Long November and I had questions:
- How did a man who had never published anything bolt out of the gate with a novel from a major house?
- Given its commercial success, why is The Long November Nablo's only book?
- Why did the flurry of editions and printings of The Long November come to such an abrupt end?
Today, sixty-four years after the last edition, The Long November is again available as the latest in the Véhicule Press Ricochet Books series. I think it's worth a read. But then I would say that – I was the guy who suggested that it be reprinted in the first place. You'll find the answers to the question posed above in my Introduction.
Look, there aren't many novels out there that take place in Cataract City (read: Niagara Falls), Moreland Lake (read: Kirkland Lake) and Toronto (read: Toronto). This one is the real deal.
Write what you know.
Nablo wrote about rumrunning because he'd been a rumrunner, he wrote about mining because he'd been a miner, and he wrote about women because he had known more than a few. The Long November is a rough novel; back in 1946 its language offended a whole lot of people. If talk of "shacking up", "suck-holing" and "being screwed without being kissed" offend, this isn't the book for you.
Stronger eggs and skirts will find The Long November just the thing for fin d'été. You Yanks will have to wait for autumn.
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| Den Lange November James Benson Nablo [trans. Henning Kehler] Copenhagen: Nyt Nordisk, 1948 |
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