Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia by James Doyle, and: Alice Munro: A Double Life by Catherine Sheldrick Ross, and: Dorothy Livesay: Patterns in a Poetic Life by Peter Stevens (review)

214 LETTERS IN CANADA 1992 the blC.griilpJUCl:ll and historical contexts of The Canadian questlon that must 1972 number Notes J~u""r''I'\(1 and Leslie Monkman in their recent Richardson Have uUJu.....J:...I.lr:i the 1(1C11nt'1I"'tT Leacock: The of Grillia ECW Press. 79. $14.95 paper Catherine Sheldrick Ross. Alice Mun.rD: A Double ECW Press. 97. $14.95 paper Peter Stevens. JLJlJlnJH,tll paper ref)et11 tnl'e DaUeITLS in idEmtLtl€:d as 'Patterns in a Poetic HUMANITIES 215 context socialist artist. At ""...., ........'~............. and 216 LETI'ERS IN CANADA 1992 ......"""'''''''','11:> "'I... !!!o,..,~...t-.::... and that of her ~.~~..~,~ m~()mXeiil ft~n.to~ w()rkerS in the United States and Ja}:)anese hsJlermen Stevens also chronicles the connections betwE!en and Much of the latter is as a frank celebrant of sexual love in The violence and the un,ph~as,antnE:ss. the direct tone of Munro's "'..,..................J;, reflective tone than that the connections belwE~en Munro "1"1:1"""'':>1''1 and mc)tnlerlllooa connections ".oi1:A7'~j:>'" blc,gr.aPll1ClH tion - all with the that it takes one hundred real 'r"\o,n.nIIO to make one fictional character. Ross also us not as a the She thinks of a in: 'when "'.......,...,..,,,...'" and I know the inside that structure.... I've to a to fit around the indescribable HUMANmES 217 the I start aC(~IlnuJlatjng Rubio and Elizabeth editors. The Selected of L.M. Volume 3: 1921-29 Oxford Press. xxvI 443 conveniences' or and date for a "'~1nl"ll""U ........'e'.....J .. tional and lows. of a form or mode an1vor\e interested or women's yu,.