Posted AT 5:23 AM EST on 07/11/05
The Luck of the draw
Called on to review the Canadian novelist Joan Barfoot, critics quickly reach for comparisons. Joan Barfoot is like Margaret Atwood, they sometimes say. (Maybe, but her humour is kinder and she's nicer to her male characters.) Joan Barfoot is like Carol Shields, they often repeat. (Hmm, not exactly. Her novels are darker and more overtly dramatic.) Sometimes these similes are so stretched they start to sound like the pitch for a Hollywood movie. "Her . . .
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