![]() Though I love a good science-fiction/fantasy yarn, this doesn't seem to have one it almost seems like the movie was sheer spectacle, just like Michael Bay's Transformers flicks supposedly are. I've never seen the movie this book is based on, but I'm not sure I would want to do that now. It seems that only a miracle can save them and their dwelling now.but the kind of miracle they get is something that no one would ever expect or even believe. They, and others, live in a building that is on the verge of being destroyed. Marisa Esteval is a young lady who is expecting.and unwed. Synopsis: Frank and Faye Riley are an elderly couple Faye's Alzheimer's leads her to believe that she sees her son everywhere, even though he died in a car crash years ago. His final novel, Halfway Man (1989), echoed themes from his first, The Wabeno Feast. His non-fiction also reflected his concern for the environment and interest for Canadian landscapes, as seen in books such as Superior: The Haunted Shore and A Sea Within: the Gulf of St. Many readers, though, surely know him better as the author of an ecological science fiction trilogy, the Erthring Cycle (1984-1986), and of several movie novelizations (Corvette Summer, Dragonslayer, Batteries Not Included, and Willow, the last three of which were translated into French and the second in German). In her essay on "Canadian Monsters: Some Aspects of the Supernatural in Canadian Fiction ", Margaret Atwood noted that Drew's use of the aboriginal wabeno revealed a concern "with man's relationship to his society and to himself, as opposed to his relationship with the natural environment" and she concluded that Drew's novel combined "both concerns in a rather allegorical and very contemporary fashion". While rooted in Northern Ontario, the story indicted modern industrial civilization as an extension of the European colonization of Canada by depicting an entire society's fall into ruin. His first novel (and sometimes stated to be his best) was The Wabeno Feast (1973). He also worked for the Ontario Ministry of Education.ĭrew began to write seriously in high school and published a number of short stories (to magazines such as The Tamarack Review) and non-fiction pieces throughout his career, while also selling radio and film scripts. From 1961-1994 he was a high school teacher in Port Perry, Bracebridge, and Muskoka Lakes. Shortly after graduation he married Gwendolyn Parrott and together they raised four children. He attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto, where he earned a BA in English Language and Literature (1957). ![]() Wayland Drew (1932-1998) was a writer born in Oshawa, Ontario.
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