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My evaluation of any prose
fiction is, I suppose, that of
an "aesthete" --- a term which
has unhappy connotations, but
which I'll claim anyway. What it
means in practice is that I value
most highly that work which uses
literary skills to engage the
reader successfully. Almost
always this will mean that the
writer will demand the participation
of the reader, and will
in fact be writing within the
reader's responses --- "in the
reader's head," as it were.
Therefore, other aspects of
fiction are to my mind
interesting and useful, but not
so important. For example, a work
might have a great cultural value
because it speaks of a particular
national or regional historical
event, or it might be a portrait
of a certain kind of person or
a certain place --- and therefore
be of value to a psychologist or
sociologist. But the subject matter
of the fiction is not so
important to me as its excellence.
Anyway, here are the publishers
of the works I've mentioned.
Ann Copeland, The Golden Thread
(Harper Collins, Toronto)
Helen Weinzweig, A View from the
Roof (Goose Lane, Fredericton)
Paul Quarrington, Whale Music
(Doubleday, Toronto)
Michael Carin,
The Neutron Picasso
(Deneau Gaudet, Toronto)
Leona Gom, Zero Avenue
(Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver)
Bill Gaston, Deep, Cove Stories
(Oolichan Books, Lantzville, BC)
Barry Dempster, Writing Home
(Oberon, Ottawa)
Margaret Hollingsworth,
Smiling Under Water
(Lazara, Vancouver)
Lesley Krueger, Hard Travel
(Oberon, Ottawa)
Katherine Govier,
Before and After
(Viking, Toronto)
Cynthia Holz, Home Again
(Random House, Toronto)
Ann Diamond, Snakebite
(Cormorant Books, Dunvegan,
Ontario)
Susan Kerslake, Blind Date
(Pottersfield Press,
Porters Lake, N.S.)
Silver Donald Cameron (July, 1989)
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One of Canada's most versatile professional
writers, Silver Donald Cameron
writes books and magazine articles as
well as scripts for film, TV and radio.
Four of his 45 radio dramas have been
ACTRA Award finalists. Many have been
produced in France, New Zealand, Yugoslavia
and Ireland, and The Sisters was
Canada's 1980 entry for the Prix Italia.
His stage play The Prophet at Tantramar,
on Leon Trotsky's 1917 internment
in Nova Scotia, was produced in 1988
by The Ship's Company Theatre.
He has put lished eight books:
Faces of Leacock
(Ryerson, 1967)(literary study)
Conversations With Canadian Novelists
(Macmillian, 1973)(interviews)
The Education of Everett Richardson
(McClelland and Stewart, 1977)
(labour history)
Seasons in the Rain
(McClelland and Stewart, 1978)(essays)
Dragon Lady (McClelland and Stewart,
1980; Seal, 1981)(novel)