Autumn Toronto George Bowering's […]
When
1980-09 – 1980-11
Description
Autumn Toronto George Bowering's novel Burning Water, loosely based on the life of Captain George Vancouver, was published by Musson. It won the Governor-General's award for fiction, 1980.
All Places
TorontoAll People
George VancouverGeorge BoweringAll Organizations
Musson Book CompanyAll Monograph
Burning WaterAll Citations
Ian Young, The Male Homosexual in Literature: A Bibliography, second ed. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982), entry 365.Chris Scott, "A Bum Rap for Poor George Vancouver" (review), Books in Canada, November 1980, p. 9Elske Kuiper, "Burning Water" (review), Quill & Quire, January 1981, p. 24Geoff Hancock, "Vancouver's Founder Gets a Drubbing" (review), Toronto Star, Saturday ed., 13 September 1980, p. F9Janet Giltrow, "Fast-forward Man" (review), Canadian Literature, no. 89 (1981), pp. 118–20William French, "Bowering Novel Entertains, History Takes the Hindmost" (review), Globe and Mail, metro ed., 4 September 1980, p. 17John Faustmann, "Why Is This Author Smiling?" (review), Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 24 October 1980, p. L44Anthony S. Brennan, "Burning Water" (review), Fiddlehead, no. 131 (1982), pp. 85–87
