From Gail's Desk
Gift ideas from Mary Novik
We all know Giller Prize books will find their way under the tree at Christmas. But what books are Giller Prize nominated authors giving? I asked that question of several Giller Prize alumni, past and present. I've been offering their answers each day this week leading up to Christmas day. The last gift suggestions of the week come from Mary Novik, the author of Conceit which was chosen as a Book of the Year by both Quill & Quire and The Globe and Mail. Long-listed for the Giller Prize, it won BC's top fiction award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize."If money were no object, I'd give every book club across the country a bundle of Canadian novels--a dozen stunners guaranteed to shock and delight: Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Robertson Davies' Fifth Business, Margaret Laurence's The Jest of God, Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Audrey Thomas's Songs My Mother Taught Me, Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman, Timothy Findley's The Wars, Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning, Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night, and Annabel Lyon's The Golden Mean."
Wonderful idea, Mary.
Merry Christmas everyone!
