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Children of the Day.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-JUN-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Children of the Day. Sandra Birdsell. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2005.405 pp. $35.95 hc.

Sandra Birdsell, the Giller and Governor-General's Award nominated author, displays another range of narrative dexterity in her latest novel Children of the Day. Known for her preeminent repertoire...

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...of Canadian prairie literature, Birdsell continues to explore the Manitoba prairie as a place developing out of ethnic co-operation and conflict. Yet Birdsell's focus here is acute: this is the story of Sara and Oliver Vandal, a couple whose pasts collide in the present of a single day. In the traditional Greek drama, this classic twenty-four hour structure enables Birdsell to exploit her masterful use of point of view to show how the seemingly uneventful diurnal experiences of life can erupt from its rolling sequence of time and reveal...

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