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The Torontonians received a nod from Quill & Quire's George Fetherling in his review of Imagining Toronto by Amy Lavender Harris.
"Harris covers everyone you would expect: Morley Callaghan, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Michaels, Matt Cohen – the list is long. But far more interesting are her interpretations of books now only faintly remembered, such as Phyllis Brett Young’s 1960 novel The Torontonians (re-released by McGill-Queens University Press in 2007), one of the first works of Canadian literature to make art out of the suburbs." (read more)
First published in 1960, The Torontonians tells a classic feminist story of suburban ennui and existential self-discovery, tracing a detailed portrait of femininity in the 1950s through the eyes of its perceptive and thoughtful heroine.
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