...Hold Fast, by Kevin Majors?
I haven't.
The classic Newfoundland novel Hold Fast, ranked by Quill & Quire as second only to Anne of Green Gables for Canadian children's books, will soon be a film starring Molly Parker, Andy Jones and soulful newcomer Avery Ash.
My lack of knowledge about Canadian literature continues to depress me.
You're only a few hours north, Canada! Why don't I know you better?
Never heard of it... oh wait, that's because it was published in 2004. (Second-best OF ALL TIME? Who were these panelists? [citation needed])
Posted by: Electric Landlady | 25 June 2012 at 04:37 PM
Whoops. 1978. I've still never heard of it!
Posted by: Electric Landlady | 25 June 2012 at 04:38 PM
It's phenomenal, as all Kevin Major books are!
Posted by: Ali | 25 June 2012 at 04:49 PM
There's a lot of good stuff up here, as I discovered when I decided I should be emphasizing my fellow Canadians on my book blog. I'm embarrassed to say I was woefully ignorant of most of them until then....
www.10storiesup.blogspot.com
Check out the label "Canadian Authors" for your convenience!
Posted by: Lindsey Carmichael | 25 June 2012 at 06:54 PM
Yay! Thanks!
Posted by: Leila | 25 June 2012 at 06:56 PM
You're welcome! One Canadian book I didn't review but I think you'd love is The Dollmage by Martine Leavitt. It might be hard to find, but it's worth the effort!
Posted by: Lindsey Carmichael | 26 June 2012 at 07:09 AM
Errrr.... I grew up in Canada during the 1980s and I never heard of this book. Time to go correct that. Thanks, Leila!
Posted by: geekmom | 26 June 2012 at 03:05 PM
Sigh . . . we should *all* know more about Canadians. They are like cleaner, politer versions of Americans. With health care.
Posted by: Ilanawaters | 27 June 2012 at 04:42 PM
If it helps you feel better, I'm a Canadian with a penchant for reading and chatting up Canadiana and I haven't read it. I just put myself on the list for it at the library and will rectify that shortly.
Posted by: Sarah | 29 June 2012 at 12:12 PM
Are you taking suggestions? Let me push Kit Pearson’s “The Guests of War” trilogy at you. The books were good, but not anywhere near ‘best-book-ever’-outstanding, so I was caught by surprise by the force of my emotion at the end of the last book. I can’t think of any other book or series that I so much regretted that they were fictional, so that I‘ll never know what happened to the characters after it ended.
Posted by: Maridesce | 30 June 2012 at 12:53 PM