Days by Moonlight

A woman I used to know once told me a story about going to Mexico for the first time, never having studied Spanish, but suddenly discovering that she understood the language. She then became fluent in one week. I feel as if I'm in a similar story reading this book, my second by André Alexis. I've ne......more

Beneath these small impressions, there was something deeper. I could feel the flow of that particularly Canadian thing: passion brought on by outrage. Outrage seeped into the Wolf and Pendulum and permeated the place: an outrage that turned, at times, to aggression, an aggression that few of thos......more

Alfred Homer's just trying to put his past behind him. He's lost both his parents to a car accident and his lover has just left him. So he joins his parent's friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, on the hunt for information on poet John Skennen that will take them both across Southern Ontario. And while th......more

This is one the most imaginative novels I’ve ever read. Alexis seems to have absolutely no self-consciousness about the mix of genres and approaches in his work. He is tied to literature — especially a certain kind of classic (and, in this instance, he lists his inspirations after the text of the no......more

What a profoundly strange novel! In Days by Moonlight we follow recently divorced Alfred Homer and Professor Morgan Bruno on a research trip through southern Ontario. Quite quickly the novel ventures into the absurd, strange, and near-psychedelic. To my taste, this is my least favourite of the Quinc......more