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Chad Baker was a rock star once, a real '60s hitmaker. Now he serves as benevolent angel of the Ottawa music scene, helping new bands make demos--and sometimes, secretly, helping a young beauty into his second, hidden recording studio. This is where Baker, a serial killer, records his victims' dying screams. When he combines the agonized vocalizations, he creates a hellish new music. Music that summons a different sort of angel--an unearthly and brutally vengeful Angel of Darkness.
Originally published in 1990 under the pen name Samuel M. Key, fantasy master Charles de Lint's Angel of Darkness betrays its early-novel status. The pacing is uneven. The Stephen King influence is occasionally too strong. And there are more characters involved than the younger, less experienced author was capable of juggling. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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A young artist returns to her cabin in the deep woods of Canada to concentrate on her work and finds that, somehow, strange and beautiful creatures are creeping into her art. [via]
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Garbo Laughs, Elizabeth Hay's second novel following her Giller-nominated A Student of Weather, opens with a question that has caused debate and dissension for decades: who's better, Frank Sinatra or Marlon Brando? While her son Kenny favours Frankie, Harriet likes Brando, and she has the last word. "He's a better actor," she tells him. "He's better looking. Which isn't to say I don't like Frank Sinatra. I do. At least, I like the young Frank Sinatra when he looked like Glenn Gould. He was an awful thug when he got older." This is no idle matter for Harriet. She may live in Ottawa with her two adolescent children, her good-hearted husband Lew, and her moribund writing career, but her true home is in the celluloid world that belongs to Brando, Garbo, and her beloved Buster Keaton. It's often more real to her than that other, more modest world, in which life-changing events are not accompanied by an orchestra's swells. As her husband laments, "Movies... that's all she cares about." Nevertheless Harriet is often distracted from her cinematic pursuits--which include writing letters to legendary critic Pauline Kael--by the friends and neighbours who enmesh her in their minor traumas and major tragedies. The more Harriet tries to retreat into the safety of flickering lights, the less she is able to cope with the crises that threaten her own marriage. "I've seen a thousand movies," Harriet writes in another unsent letter to Kael, "but I'm still no good at love."
If Garbo Laughs were a movie, it would be one of the low-key, drolly humorous yet essentially melancholy films of Scottish director Bill Forsythe. (Unsurprisingly, Harriet is a fan of Forsythe's wonderful Local Hero.) Though Hay's book may sometimes seem overly meandering, it ultimately needs the generous running time. That's because Harriet's story is less about the dramatic conflicts that fuel Hollywood's fantasies than the steady accretion of subtle details, emotional nuances, and little moments when "we make our confessions to the wrong person, and the bonds that we have no intention of forming get formed." --Jason Anderson [via]

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Not far from the modern city lies an ancient wood, forgotten by the rest of the world, where mystery walks in the moonlight. In the wood he wears the shape of a stag, a goat, a horned man wearing a cloak of leaves. He is summonded by the music of the pipes or a fire of bones on midsummer. [via]

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Jack of Kinrowan brings together two Charles de Lint novels, Jack, the Giant Killer and Drink Down the Moon to make a contemporary riff on the classic English fairy tale. Jack is a rollicking saga of wild Faerie magic on the streets of Ottawa. A menacing gang of mystical bikers in the service of evil giants spin through Ottawa, and in the process hurtle twentysomething Jacky Rowan into Faerie. The eminently plucky Jacky finds herself hailed as Jack of Kinrowan, a trickster hero whose lot it is to rescue the Elven Courts from the unimaginably evil giants. With the help of her friend Kate Hazel and handsome Celtic fiddler Johnny Faw, Jacky sets out to free the Faerie folk in this fabulous fantasy adventure. Jack, the Giant Killer won the 1988 Aurora Award, Canada's top science fiction and fantasy prize, and the two novels combined create a first-rate urban fantasy in de Lint's characteristic style, mixing traditional fantasy lore--in this case Celtic mythology--with a contemporary setting. Jack of Kinrowan ingeniously moves between the world of Faerie and contemporary Ottawa, drawing the reader into an amazing world where anything can happen. --Jeffrey Canton [via]

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The sequel to Moonheart reveals further adventures in the mysterious garden of a sprawling building in Ottawa--a garden that is a gateway to a magical world of native-American and Celtic mythology. [via]

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The Stone Diaries is Carol Shields's most celebrated work and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful novels of the past two decades. A fictional autobiography of an ordinary woman, this multi-award-winning book (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Governor-General's Award) serves as a record of the last century. Daisy Goodwill is on a journey of self-discovery. From her last days in a Florida nursing home she looks back in an attempt to make sense of her life story. Her birth in a turn of the century farmhouse is a shock, born to a woman so obese she doesn't even realize she is pregnant. Widowed on her honeymoon after her husband takes his own life, there is another marriage, children and a beloved hobby that becomes a career, of sorts. It is a life like any other, filled with the richness of human relations and the sting of disappointments both big and small. The beauty of this work lies in the details, the tiny brushstrokes of character and setting, at which Carol Shields is the undisputed master. This engrossing abridged recording was first broadcast on CBC Radio in 1995. Carol Shields both reviewed and approved the abridgement and the recording. [via]
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On the prairie of Dust Bowl Canada, two sisters fall down the same well, and the well is named Maurice Dove. A Student of Weather is a brilliant first novel by acclaimed story-writer Elizabeth Hay. Already a best seller in Canada, it tells the story of the rivalry between two contrasting sisters and of the stranger who changes both their lives forever. Spanning thirty years, it opens in the Prairie Dust Bowl of the 1930s and, later, in the decades following the war, moves back and forth between Ottawa and New York City. Maurice Dove is a visitor to the Saskatchewan farm of widower Ernest Hardy. The relationship he forms with Hardy's daughters-the beautiful, virtuous Lucinda and the dark, intelligent, younger Norma-Joyce-gives rise to an act of betrayal that throws into relief the deep-rooted enmity between them. Norma-Joyce's life, from the time she is eight, is fuelled by her obsessive (and unrequited) love for Maurice Dove. Later, in pursuing her life as an artist, she makes discoveries about her past that bring the story full-circle. Hay's evocation of place is palpable, vivid; her characters at once eccentric and familiar. Norma-Joyce, once a strange, dark, self-possessed child, becomes a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the redemptive power of art. Hay's writing is spare yet richly textured, dark and erotic. The physical and emotional landscapes she portrays evoke tragic and comic surprises, and teach us about the lasting imprint of first love. [via]

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