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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Madrun Badrun on October 31, 2007, 03:11:21 PM

Title: Canadian literature? Some one...anyone?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 31, 2007, 03:11:21 PM
So I need some suggestions for English language arts.  I have to do something on a Canadian author and something on a Canadian novel, and I don't know what to pick.


Anyone know any good books by Canadian authors?

Here is the list I must choose from  :'(



1.    A Quality of Light (CAN)     Richard Wagamese     
4.    Alias Grace (CAN)     Margaret Atwood     
8.    As for Me and My House     Sinclair Ross     N
9.    Away     Jane Urquhart     Novel     
10.    Barometer Rising     Hugh MacLennan     
11.    Fifth Business     Robertson Davies     
12.    Fugitive Pieces     Anne Michaels     
13.    Gaffer     Kevin Major     Novel     
14.    Gates of the Sun     Sharon Butala 
15.    In Search of April Raintree (Excerpts)     Beatrice Culleton     ,
16.    Jalna     Mazo de la Roche     
17.    Luck of Ginger Coffey     Brian Moore     
20.    Maria Chapdelaine     L. H¿mon         
23.    More Joy in Heaven     Morley Callaghan     
24.    No Man's Land     Kevin Major     
25.    Peace Shall Destroy Many     Rudy Wiebe     
26.    Sarah Binks     Paul Hiebert     
28.    Settlers of the Marsh     Fredrick Philip Grove     
29.    Stone Diaries     Carol Shields     
30.    Such a Long Journey     Rohinton Mistry     
31.    Tamarind Mem     Anita Rau Badami     Novel     
32.    The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravetz     Mordecai Richler     
34.    The Betrayal     Henry Kreisel     Novel     
35.    The Forest     Georges Bugnet     
37.    The Jade Peony     Wayson Choy     
38.    The Mountain and the Valley     Ernest Buckler
40.    The Rich Man     Henry Kreisel     
43.    The Tin Flute     Gabrielle Roy 
44.    The Town Below     Roger Lemelin     
45.    The Watch That Ends the Night     Hugh MacLennan     
46.    They Shouldn't Make You Promise That     Lois Simmie     
48.    Turvey (CAN)     Earle Birney     
49.    Two Solitudes     Hugh MacLennan     
54.    Under the Ribs of Death     J. Marlyn     
55.    Underpainter (CAN)     Jane Urquhart     
56.    Where Nests the Water Hen     Gabrielle Roy 
58.    Wild Geese
Title: Re: Canadian literature? Some one...anyone?
Post by: Gay Boy on October 31, 2007, 03:11:59 PM
32.    The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravetz     Mordecai Richler


I like the sound of a name like DUDDY.
Title: Re: Canadian literature? Some one...anyone?
Post by: Ichirou on October 31, 2007, 03:13:38 PM
Wow, I didn't realize Canadian literature was such a complete wasteland.
Title: Re: Canadian literature? Some one...anyone?
Post by: TVC15 on October 31, 2007, 03:17:09 PM
I like Robertson Davies an awful lot, but you have to be a hoi polloi literary person to really get into him.  A significant portion of his work is indebted to Canadian history, and more specifically, Canadian academic history, meaning that he, well, wrote for an extremely narrow audience.  He was a very witty and funny man, though, and I found it worthwhile to get over the hurdles.  Fifth Business is good stuff, as are the other Deptford trilogy books.

Margaret Atwood has her moments, but she kinda grates on me with her tendencies towards preachiness.  Nobody likes a preachy woman.

Title: Re: Canadian literature? Some one...anyone?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 31, 2007, 03:26:05 PM
Fifth Business was what I was eying too.  I'll check with my teacher if I can read something else.

Because Atwood never got a good enough dicking, I had to suffer though most of Handmaids tale.  Never again. 

Quote from: Ichirou on October 31, 2007, 03:13:38 PM
Wow, I didn't realize Canadian literature was such a complete wasteland.

It really is.  And if I have to read though one more novel or short story about some one having to deal with the hardships of a small town or cold weather I'ma going to kill some one.
Title: Re: Canadian literature? Some one...anyone?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 10, 2007, 07:03:00 PM
Just finished Fifth Business.  Very good.  I plan to pick up the rest of the trilogy this winter and I'll read the cunning man this week.

I really like how all sexual encounters were viewed in terms of power.

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It was rather erotic  :o
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Title: Re: Canadian literature? Some one...anyone?
Post by: cloudwalking on November 10, 2007, 07:06:10 PM
13.    Gaffer     Kevin Major     Novel 

don't read this one, you're an evilborian
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 10, 2007, 07:08:06 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: Canadian literature? Some one...anyone?
Post by: TVC15 on November 10, 2007, 08:00:31 PM
Cool.  I'm glad you liked it!