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Ravines and Reality
From: Literary Review of Canada
Date: 20080601
Author:Apostolides, Marianne
Ravines and Reality The Ravine Paul Quarrington Random House 304 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780307356147
A bumbling narrator searches for the dark and telling moment in his past.
Paul Quarrington's writing is all about narrative voice. Yes, he develops setting, character and thematic idea in each of his books (he has written over a dozen, including King Leary, which won the Stephen Leacock Medal in 1988 and the 2008 Canada Reads competition). But Quarrington's unique contribution-the element that gives him that mysterious shimmer of "importance"-is narrative voice. The Ravine is no exception.
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