BOOKS
Isobel and Emile, by Alan Reed, Coach House Books
by Justin Scherer
09.08.2010
He is alone. She is alone. They meet each other. They eat meals together. They are nervous. They laugh. They enjoy romance. They begin to trust. They fall in love… And it usually stops there; the typical two-become-one love story endemic to our popular discourse. In his novel, Isobel and Emile, Alan Reed upends the [...]
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BOOKS
The End of the Ice Age, by Terence Young, Biblioasis
by Mark Paterson
07.08.2010
Contrary to the codes of cliché, there’s more to men at midlife than Ferraris and pharmaceuticals. In his fifth book, the excellent short story collection The End of the Ice Age, Terence Young trains his sharp eye on the tricky state of being between young and old. His meaningful stories catalogue an array of possible [...]
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