From the Heart of the Heartland: The Fiction of Sinclair Ross

A Reference Guide to Sinclair Ross

A Reference Guide to Sinclair Ross DAVID LATHAM The first half of this checklistof writingsby and about Sinclair Ross begins with the editions of his four novels and two collections of short stories. It continues with the original publication in periodicals or anthologies of his short stories, articles, and memoir. The inclusion of a story in The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories or in The Race and Other Stories is noted at the end of the entry by the abbreviation LNOS or ROS. The selection of reprinted anthology contributions includes translations of his stories into Chinese and German. The second half of the checklist isdevoted to Ross's critical reception. It begins with four books on Ross, continues with articles and sections of books, with theses and dissertations, with interviews, and with adaptations of his fiction for radio and television. Those critical works that focus on a specific novel or story, and whose titles are not self-explanatory, have their subjects identified within brackets at the end of the entry. (Detailed annotations of the books, articles, and reviews published before 1981 areavailable in my bibliography of Ross published in the Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, Vol. 3 [ECW Press, 1981].) In addition to the abbreviations for the two collections of short stories, LNOS and ROS, I have abbreviated As for Me and My House and Sawbones Memorial as AMMH and SM. Th selection of book reviews concludes with reviews of the MacmillanAnthology I, since reviewers invariablysingled out for praise its publication of Ross's most recent work, his 1988 memoir "Just Wind and Horses." 726 PARTI Works by Sinclair Ross Books As for Me and My House. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1941. 296 pp. . Introd. Roy Daniells. New Canadian Library, No. 4. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1957. x, 165 pp. . Introd. David Stouck. Bison Book. Lincoln: Universityof Nebraska Press, 1978. xiii, 165 pp. . AUservicedu Seigneur?Trans. Louis-Bertrand Raymond. Montreal: Editions Fides, 1981. 238pp. . Introd. Lorraine McMulIen. New Canadian Library, Canadian Classic Series. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983. 165 pp. . Afterword Robert Kroetsch. New Canadian Library. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989. 221 pp. The Well. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958. 256 pp. The Lumpat Noon and Other Stories. Introd. Margaret Laurence. New Canadian Library, No. 62. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. 134pp. Whir of Gold. Toronto: McClellandand Stewart, 1970. 195 pp. Sawbones Memorial. Toronto: McClellandand Stewart, 1974. 140 pp. . Introd. Lorraine McMulIen. New Canadian Library, No. 145. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. 144 pp. The Raceand Other Stories. Introd. Lorraine McMulIen. Ottawa: Univ. of Ottawa Press, 1982. 137pp. Contributions to Periodicals and Books: Short Stories, Articles, and Memoir Short Stories "No Other Way." Nosh's Magazine 95 (October 1934), 16-17, 80-84. ROS. "A Field of Wheat." Queen's Quarterly 42 (Spring 1935), 31-42. LNOS. "September Snow." Queen's Quarterly 42 (Winter 1935), 451-60. LNOS ("Not by Rain Alone. Part II: September Snow"). "Circus in Town." Queen's Quarterly 43 (Winter 1936), 368—72. Rpt. in Country Guide and Nor'west Farmer 61 (June 1942), 12, 57. LNOS. "The Lamp at Noon." Queen's Quarterly 45 (Spring 1938), 30-42. LNOS. "A Day with Pegasus." Queen's Quarterly 45 (Summer 1938), 141—56. Rpt. in Country Guide an Nor'west Farmer 61 (April 1942), 12, 36-38. ROS. "The Painted Door." Queen's Quarterly 46 (Summer 1939), 145-68. LNOS. "Cornet at Night." Queen's Quarterly 46 (Winter 1939), 431-52. Rpt. in Country Guide and Nor'west Farmer 61 (May 1942), 9, 23-27. LNOS. "Not by Rain Alone." Queen's Quarterly 48 (Spring 1941), 7-16. LNOS ("Not by Rai Alone. Part I: Summer Thunder"). "Nell." Manitoba Arts Review 2 (Winter 1941), 32-40. ROS. "One's a Heifer." In CanadianAccent.Ed. Ralph Gustafson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1944, 114-28. LNOS. "Barrack Room Fiddle Tune." Manitoba Arts Review 5 (Spring 1947), 12-17. ROS. "Jug and Bottle." Queen's Quarterly 56 (Winter 1949), 500-21. ROS. 727 "The Outlaw." Queen's Quarterly 57 (Summer 1950), 198-210. LNOS. "Saturday Night." Queen's Quarterly 58 (Autumn 1951), 387-400. ROS. "The Runaway."Queen's Quarterly 59 (Autumn 1952), 323-42. LNOS. "Spike." Trans. Pierre Villon. Liberte11 (mars-avril 1969), 181-97. Rpt. in English in Sinclair Ross, A Reader's Guide. Ken Mitchell. Moose Jaw: Coteau Books, 1981, 95-107; Erindale Review 1 (1982), 49-59. ROS. "The Flowers That Killed Him." Journal...