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Quebec-based Marianne Ackerman's first novel Jump (McArthur & Conmpany, 2000) takes place in 1995 during the impending provincial referendum.
From Quill & Quire review by Padma Viswanathan:
"Ackerman's self-referential plot (Myra's best friend writes a bilingual play for his alternative theatre, just as the author did for hers) and deadly accurate social realism (much of Jump's action takes place in haunts very familiar to a certain Montreal set) risk boring as many readers as they titillate. But her book engages because its people live and breathe."
Ackerman's second novel Matters of Hart (McArthur & Company, 2006) is set in Vancouver, Montreal and Los Angeles. It recalls the life of a divorced 50-year-old screenwriter through the voices of five women in his life.
Essays:
Revolution and the Muse: An Inquiry Into the Political Nature of Art in the People's Republic of China (Dissertation for Carleton University, 1976)
She also contributed to Minority Report: An Alternative History of English-Language Arts in Quebec (2011, part of the Guernica Essay Series)
Plays:
The Garrison Officers Rehearse Moliere (Tarragon Theatre Archives, University of Guelph,1987)
L'Affaire Tartuffe, Or, The Garrison Officers Rehearse Molière (NuAge, 1993)
Venus of Dublin (NuAge, 2000)
BOOKS:
Woman by a Window: & Celeste (NuAge, 1996)
Jump (McArthur, 2000) $21.95
Matters of Hart (McArthur, 2006)
Piers' Desire (McArthur, 2012)
[BCBW 2012] "Fiction"
From Quill & Quire review by Padma Viswanathan:
"Ackerman's self-referential plot (Myra's best friend writes a bilingual play for his alternative theatre, just as the author did for hers) and deadly accurate social realism (much of Jump's action takes place in haunts very familiar to a certain Montreal set) risk boring as many readers as they titillate. But her book engages because its people live and breathe."
Ackerman's second novel Matters of Hart (McArthur & Company, 2006) is set in Vancouver, Montreal and Los Angeles. It recalls the life of a divorced 50-year-old screenwriter through the voices of five women in his life.
Essays:
Revolution and the Muse: An Inquiry Into the Political Nature of Art in the People's Republic of China (Dissertation for Carleton University, 1976)
She also contributed to Minority Report: An Alternative History of English-Language Arts in Quebec (2011, part of the Guernica Essay Series)
Plays:
The Garrison Officers Rehearse Moliere (Tarragon Theatre Archives, University of Guelph,1987)
L'Affaire Tartuffe, Or, The Garrison Officers Rehearse Molière (NuAge, 1993)
Venus of Dublin (NuAge, 2000)
BOOKS:
Woman by a Window: & Celeste (NuAge, 1996)
Jump (McArthur, 2000) $21.95
Matters of Hart (McArthur, 2006)
Piers' Desire (McArthur, 2012)
[BCBW 2012] "Fiction"
