Which book should be crowned winner of 2010 Canada Also Reads?
You can vote for your Canada Also Reads pick here. Here’s to hoping your Canada Also Reads pick is Fear of Fighting!
Let Zoe Whittall tell you why she thinks Fear of Fighting deserves a read:
Read more here.I’ve read enough cranky blog posts and one-note articles about why the gatekeepers of CanLit loathe the real time and/or urban setting and assume you have as well, so I won’t repeat the usual diatribes. But while we might not be skateboarding en masse to our shared lofted office and community space, there are quite a few writers in Canada publishing novels about the present. Probably enough that we could all have lunch every few months in a medium-sized restaurant. Fowles is one of them, and FOF is the perfect example of the kind of books many Canadians might be overlooking.
Posted: March 4th, 2010 under Reviews, Fear of Fighting.
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