Sara Cassidy

Flying High by Sara Cassidy

Flying High

Ann-Marie MacDonald's second novel, The Way the Crow Flies (Random House of Canada, 2003), follows her award-winning Fall On Your Knees, a first novel that sold more than 300,000 copies in Canada and was selected for the Oprah Book-of-the-Month Club. MacDonald is also a playwright and actor, and the current host of CBC-TV's Life and Times.

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Summer 2003
Sara Cassidy

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Lisa Moore

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Sara Cassidy

No wonder this book was nominated for a Giller Prize, even if it was the dark horse. These ten short stories are deliriously rich, visceral and sexy. Tenuously balanced on spare dialogue and packed with startling, sensuous images, they're also dreamy, if mercifully free of the sentimentality, implausibility and self-consciousness of so-called poetic fiction. Unfortunately, Moore's sentences are relentlessly short and though they're always rewarding, I came to feel riddled.