New Canadian Library: The Double Hook : Penguin Modern Classics Edition (Paperback)

from ElizaJane

This is the most incomprehensible book I've ever read. Short blurbs skipping all over about perhaps a dozen people in a rural setting. It never tells you what's happening, you have to infer it. I figure an old lady dies, perhaps her daughter and son killed her. The son runs away, beats up another...

from mahallett

really didn't like this but it was very short so I finished it.

from charlie68

Sparse prose, yet beautifully written, lets the reader fill in the blanks. In the style of Flannery O'Connor dark and ambiguous, and mercifully short.

from gypsysmom

This small book, 118 pages, isn't much longer than a short story but it sure packs a lot into that small size. On the back it reads "In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the British Columbia interior." That is a very good descrip...

from polutropos

A beautifully written novel, with the spirit of Faulkner hovering in its vicinity, filled with allusion, while remaining spare. Fishing is a key motif, with the reader told in the opening inscription that "when you fish for the glory, you catch the darkness, too." And the flavour is immediately a...