Anne Fleming, Author . Hyperion $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0105-7
Fleming's sophomore effort (after Marriage: A Duet
) follows the frayed connection between two sisters, skimming across their lifetimes and sketching two generations of intriguing family drama, but falling short of a cohesive whole. Clare Layton,
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Anne Fleming, Author . Raincoast $24.95 (477p) ISBN 978-1-55192-831-9
Sisters Carol and Glynnis Riggs are as different as two girls can be: at age seven, Glynnis is a confident wisecracker, while eight-year-old Carol—an albino—conceals her outcast frustration behind a pudgy, teary, clumsy exterior. Her...
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Anne Fleming, Author Polestar Book Publishers $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-896095-18-9
The earthy, emotional characters of Fleming's first collection can, in moments of poetic sobriety, call a sheep a sheep (or a suicide a suicide, a betrayal a betrayal, a cancer a cancer as the case happens to be). ""Atmospherics"" brings a group of...
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Anne Fleming, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13046-6
Long on discussion and short on action, Fleming's third British mystery (Sophie Is Gone) reads like the minutes of a dotty faculty conference on the Romantic poets, particularly Byron. Martin Proctor, chairman of the Coleridge and Other Romantic...
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Anne Fleming. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $14.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-55498-916-4
When Toronto native Kid arrives in New York City with her parents to spend several months looking after a cousin’s dog, she expects to see new and unusual things, but the rumor of a goat living atop their building seems farfetched, even for...
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