Posted on 05/07/08
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THE ORDER OF GOOD CHEERBy Bill Gaston Anansi, 352 pages, $29.95The prospect of environmental catastrophe has begun to haunt contemporary fiction. It is oblique, matter-of-fact or otherwise unsensational - and all the more frightening for it. "[I]f suburban old ladies with not much life left to lose now talked this way - that is, as advocates for Greenpeace - then the planet indeed must be in trouble," is how Andy Winslow, protagonist of one strand of Bill Gaston's The Order of Good Cheer, puts it. His garden, in present-day Prince Rupert, B.C., is disappearing into the sea, and a 15-mile stretch of dead fish has turned up along the coast overnight.
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