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Joseph Elfassi

Set in Alberta — Feels Like Kansas

Sundre, Christopher Willard, Véhicule Press

by Joseph Elfassi
02.08.2009

Christopher Willard, the author of the much-celebrated Garbage Head, delivers his second novel from Véhicule Press. Sundre reads like a willfully sublime poem; it packs a wallop. Even so, the book’s occasional grandeur seems somehow artificial, manufactured, too self-conscious.

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Mobile 9: Remarkably Ordinary

Mobile 9, Bill Haugland, Véhicule Press

by Joseph Elfassi
25.07.2009

When an aggressive crime is wrongly pinned on one of their own, TV journalists from CKCF Television decide to undertake their own investigation. They quickly discover the Mafia’s involvement, police corruption, anti-Anglophone sentiment, and odd behavior among their own co-workers.

Friday 30.07.2010

Marianne Ackerman
- Summer Reading 27.06.2010
  Further to my call for summer reading lists, here’s what Cheryl Braganza, C […]
Noah Richler
- A Third Place 02.06.2010
  I’ve given up coffee. From three short kick-ass double espressos to none, a […]
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