Settlers of the Marsh
8 best books like Settlers of the Marsh (Frederick Philip Grove): The Accidental, Rockbound, As for Me and My House, Wild Geese, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Ravensong, Such Is My Beloved, Dream Sequence
| Author | Ali Smith |
| ISBN | 1400032180 |
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing “thrilling.” Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her “style, ideas, and punch.”...
| Author | Frank Parker Day |
| ISBN | 0802067239 |
To the harsh domain of Rockbound -- governed by the sternly righteous and rapacious Uriah Jung --comes the youthful David Jung to claim his small share of the island. Filled with dreamy optimism and a love for the unspoken promises of the night sky, David tries to find his way in a narrow, unforgiving,...
| Author | Sinclair Ross |
| ISBN | 0771099975 |
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind.”
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| Author | Martha Ostenso |
| ISBN | 0771099940 |
Wild Geese caused a sensation when it was first published in 1925. To a generation bred on sentimental escapist literature, the idea of a heroine as wild as a bronco and as fiery as a tigress was nothing short of revolutionary. In the character of Judith Gare, Martha Ostenso had painted so naked and uncompromising...
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
| Author | Stephen Leacock |
| ISBN | 1406814334 |
Now with regard to Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock's 1912 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, I have always (and from square one so to speak) been of the distinct and unfortunate impression that for many of us who have had to meticulously and with enforced thoroughness peruse Sunshine Sketches of...
| Author | Lee Maracle |
| ISBN | 0889740445 |
Ravensong, Lee Maracle's 1993 novel, is as powerful and meaningful today as it was when it was first published some twenty years ago. It is a beautifully written, at times challenging, story that weaves the past with the present into a moving portrait of a family, a community and a land that has faced and...
| Author | Morley Callaghan |
| ISBN | 0097807710 |
One of the great novels of the 1930s, Such Is My Beloved recounts the tragic story of two down-and-out prostitutes and the young priest who aspires to redeem their lives. The novel is at once a compassionate portrait of innocence and idealism, and an emphatic condemnation of a society where the lines...
| Author | Adam Foulds |
| ISBN | 1473555957 |
Henry Banks, a brilliant but narcissistic young actor, is prepared to go to any length for a role, to capitalise on his successes in television drama by securing the lead in the latest film by a celebrated Spanish director. He is on the brink of the next step – very close to achieving intellectual credibility...
