The Outlander (45 page)

The author acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.

This is a work of the imagination. Although I refer to actual events
and people, I have endeavoured to make this my own creation.

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The Outlander
· Gil Adamson

The Circle Game
· Margaret Atwood

Survival
· Margaret Atwood

The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories
· Roch Carrier

Five Legs
· Graeme Gibson

De Niro's Game
· Rawi Hage

Kamouraska
· Anne Hébert

Civil Elegies
· Dennis Lee

The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore
· Lisa Moore

Poems For All the Annettes
· Al Purdy