Three Coach House titles make the Globe 100!
Coach House has three books in the Globe and Mail's top 100 of 2008: Mike Hoolboom's Practical Dreamers, Claudia Dey's Stunt and R. M. Vaughan's Troubled!
Here's what the critics have to say about each title:
'Surveying the work of more than two dozen moviemaking subjects, Hoolboom opens up a vast territory of investigation and playfulness about films that have the particularity to make us feel right at home. The task of seeing the films, like reading this book, takes a bit of work, but it's well worth it. The prerequisite is an open mind.'
— Gail Singer
'Playwright and Globe and Mail columnist Dey's debut novel cracks open the intricate interior life of Eugenia Ledoux, the irresistible nine-year-old narrator who is abandoned by her father and sets out to make sense of his abrupt departure. Dey's prose teeters evocatively and provocatively between the real and the surreal, and the gritty Toronto setting is itself a character.'
— Nikki Barrett
'This gorgeous and courageous book is a memoir in poems that chronicles the disastrous sexual relationship that Vaughan had with his actual (and unnamed) psychiatrist, and the emotional, legal and professional fallout that ensued from it. It would be easy to let this kind of book sink into a morass of embittered diary entries and tawdry sentimentality, but Vaughan is too canny and too gifted for that.'
— Paul Vermeersch
Visit the following link to read through the complete Globe 100: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081129.BK100S29/TPStory/Entertainment/Books/?pageRequested=11
