Still — B.P. Nichol

In this unusual and haunting novel, one of Canada's most distinguished avant-garde poets turns his hand to fiction, producing a work of profound emotional depth, subtlety, and intensity. Passages of terse but telling dialogue alternate with an evocative, precisely detailed portrait of a home and landscape to illuminate a young couple's inner crisis at a time of loss. The effect is of a skillfully guided tour through a world of memory and longing, risk and desire.