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A new author in the Glebe
What motivates Wien to
all these accidents connect?
By
disclose these dilemmas sud- We began with a daughter
denly foisted on her charac- doing what her parents were
Sharon
ters who appear to have such perhaps in awe of but cer-
Abron
neat lives is the unravel- tainly not in total agree-
Drache
ling of secrets and/or sup- ment with. So much of
pressed childhood natures.
She has the ability to let
such feelings motivate her
fiction, allowing the stories
to live, without becoming
Carol Anne's writing reminds
me of Alice Munro --
she is the same type of
literary traveller, only
from the east coast in-
The literary magazine has intrusive.
stead of rural Ontario and
long served as a vehicle
A Thousand Kites Over Rio British Columbia. Still,
for finding new voices. I (great title) is such a tale there is a Canadian similarjust
happened to pick up where two middle class ladies ity, a highly universal
three, Coming Attractions having lunch on a swelt- common ground for that
Oberon, 1988; edited by
ering day discover that which is observed but not
Maggie and David Helwig; The while one of them had a min- always condoned, for the
Potters field Portfolio, Vol- or affair long ago, the secret and the sacred:
ume 10, edited by Lesley
other is currently so in Good Luck Carol Anne
Choyce, 1988, and Quarry; love with a man other than Wien -- these five stories
Summer 1992, edited by Stephen her husband, that "she and a few more will find
Heighten. I discovered in is falling backwards down their way between the covers
Author Carol
each, a vibrant new author mountains." One could call of a real
Anne Wien
good book, very
from the Atlantic, Halifax- this work, The Evolution of soon.
based Carol Anne Wien, who Love, as the woman admits it
just happens to be living in was some specific raw be-
Ottawa for a year, renting a haviour which she had withouse
with her family in the nessed with her lover at
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Glebe.
the zoo in the Corcovada
near Rio, which kindled her 37 Years in the Glebe
Carol Anne Wien "began not so casual affair.
writing for children," says Wien describes the list-
We
David Helwig, who claims ener's reaction in a calm
Appreciate You!
"for that reason she starts and measured manner: "A
We appreciate
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But what her stories tend to
treat you convenient
off her waving
hours
fork, lands
and
in a gracious
show is that things are not
manner. affordable prices
on
have
the white crysanthemums."
You see it in the
you in mind.
always as they seem."
When you
How Far is Ouro Petro? is
friendly smile that need
I think David Helwig
drycleaning,
aptly the most exotic fiction,
greets you at the please see us.
sums up Wien's writing, but
We'll
where Wien lets language
counter. You know it in show you our
he doesn't mention what I loose and the sultry sun of
the way we handle appreciation.
happily discovered,Wien's Brazil takes hold of her
distinctive, highly metaphor- writer's voice. Janet,
ical turn of phrase, a clear Ursula and companion Gunther
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sign of originality which I are fellow travellers, when
hope she develops as she Janet realizes that Ursula Monday through Saturday
prepares new and old work has actually arranged an
for her first collection of
My favourite story is
affair for Gunther with a
happens to have been planted
fiction.
Bedrock, published in Quarry
young Brazilian girl who
in the lobby of the hotel
perhaps because it particu- bar. Wien describes the
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larly touches my reader's young prostitute as "sitheart
-- it would touch any ting like a dove with its
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mother's who has wanted the head in its wings." She is
best for her daughters or so young and innocent that
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sons; in this case a daugh- Janet cannot believe what
ter, who had decided to
is unfolding before her eyes.
A member of the International Fabricarc Institute,
teach in the
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Centennial. As the story the point of view of a
begins, Dorothy's parents are transient boarder. In one
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summoned by telegram to visit sentence, the wife Lily,
their daughter in an Inuit who likes flowers more than
bush camp. Without revealing hubby admits candidly, "The
what happens, I can assure first half was nice; but
you Wien handles the mother's the last half stinks!"
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in her austere Presbyterian and dreams.
childhood or her experience Transient takes place
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as a war-time bride to pre- near the border of Mexico
Let us help with the Basement,
pare her for the things that Again, the narrator is
motivated her daughter." travelling when life
the Kitchen
is
Cupboards, the
Still the mother's will does foisted on her, not an
Windows, perhaps a coat of Paint!
not impose itself. She slow- affair, or bizarre behavly
listens and guides -- fum- iour at a Brazil zoo but
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bles to do her best,
an abandoned child. Do
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