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	A Good House - Bonnie Burnard
		Burnard fails to develop the plot or deliver any message; while her novel was at times entertaining, my impression was that she does not truly understand about what she writes.
		Burnard probes into the emotions and sentiments behind each character‘s actions and develops the plot slowly and carefully as the reader forms a bond with the family.
		Burnard seems to lack an understanding of the family she explores, which is demonstrated in the scarcity of character development in the second half of the novel.
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	Burnard, Bonnie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Burnard, Bonnie, short story writer (b at Petrolia, Ont 15 Jan 1945).
		Burnard skilfully dramatizes such subjects as the insidious nature of time and illness, the unpredictable power of sexual desire and the wordless tensions that erode relationships between parents and children.
		Burnard has also edited 2 anthologies of short fiction, The Old Dance: Love Stories of One Kind or Another (1986) and Stag Line: Stories by Men (1995).
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	RTE.ie Entertainment - A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
		Bonnie Burnard won the 1999 Giller Prize (Canada's most prestigious literary award) for 'A Good House' and it is easy to see why.
		Burnard creates an utterly gripping family story that, despite the faults that later reveal themselves, requires the reader to continue to the very end.
		After the first third of the book, in which Burnard covers a mere seven years in the life of the Chambers family, she then skips forward several years between each chapter, leaving the reader feeling cheated when missing out on significant events.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2001/1122/goodhouse.html (342 words)

	A Good House by Bonnie Burnard - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Bonnie Burnard's first novel is a good book, just as the characters are good people, who live in good houses.
		Curiously, Burnard closes the novel with the marriage of Daphne's oldest daughter to an up-and-coming academic (like all good neo-Victorians, she knows that happy stories end with a wedding).
		Burnard tells of how Daphne raised her daughters on stories that only contained "the best words, the weird, strange, yummy words," but these stories always had the same revealing moral: "Be careful, children.
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	Quill And Quire
		Burnard, who was pregnant, was auditing a creative writing class and was sitting at the back when Engel visited.
		Burnard likens these close-ups to the way she would make periodic visits home during the 20 years she lived in the West.
		Quietly, unobtrusively filling in her canvas, Burnard revels in the small moments and incidents that are passed like rolls around the dinner table from one woman to another in the construing of family history.
	www.quillandquire.com /authors/profile.cfm?article_id=1635 (2141 words)

	Time International: Home, Sweet Home: Bonnie Burnard's five-decade chronicle of the Chambers clan offers up pain, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		How brave, then, of Bonnie Burnard, short-story writer and winner of the 1995 Marian Engel Award, to move into the town of Stonebrook, Ont., 500 houses in 1949, within sight of Lake Huron.
		What's more, with A Good House (HarperFlamingo Canada; $29), Burnard almost lives up to comparisons with the High Priestess of Huron County, high praise indeed for this gem of a first novel.
		Burnard's five-decade chronicle of Stonebrook's Chambers family is a Munro...
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	Book & Author Dinner: Bonnie Burnard writes 2 or 3 hours a day, then revises for 10
		Burnard will join novelist Tim Green, food writer Mimi Sheraton and memoir writer and Pennsylvania native Richard Wertime at the Sept. 27 dinner, which benefits the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council.
		Burnard will be one of four writers to speak at the Post-Gazette Book and Author Dinner Sept. 27 at the Doubletree Hotel, Downtown.
		Burnard has also taught writing, which she instead calls "working with writers, being with people and giving them a response to their work." She believes people can't really be taught to write fiction.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000903bonnie7.asp (753 words)

	Better Homes
		hen Bonnie Burnard's first novel opens, the year is 1949, and things are humming along in the southern Ontario town of Stonebrook, near the shore of Lake Huron.
		But Burnard soon proves, in this increasingly intricate and rewarding book, to have a keen appreciation for the sad, surprising, joyous, important things that happen to people whose lives, by every demographic measure, could be called normal in the extreme.
		Though the usually subtle architecture of ''A Good House'' suffers when Burnard occasionally inserts an overly symbolic contemporary event (like the publication of ''The Feminine Mystique''), it's easy to forgive these brief lapses in her otherwise strict policy of showing rather than telling what's on her characters' minds.
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	Bonnie Burnard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bonnie Burnard was born in Southwestern Ontario, where she returned after twenty years in Saskatchewan.
		She has been writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario, taught at both Sage Hill and the Humber School of Writing, and was a jury panel member for the Giller Prize.
		Burnard's stories have been included in many anthologies, among them: Stories by Canadian Women, (ed.
	www.writersunion.ca /b/burnard.htm (138 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: A Good House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bonnie Burnard's luminescent debut novel, "A Good Home," traces the fifty-year history of a Canadian family whose qualities, conflicts and struggles ultimately attain universal symbolism and significance.
		Burnard provides intricately detailed descriptions of home life, anchoring not only her characters, but her readers as well, in the sense of home which pervades her novel.
		Burnard' research is faulty, her motivation unclear and she spends uncountable words describing things that don't contribute to the tale.
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	Bonnie Bryant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Random House Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bonnie Burnard's exquisite novel tells the story of three generations of an ordinary small-town family from the 1950s to the 1990s.
		Through years of family rituals - weddings, funerals, births and holidays - bonds deepen and widen, sometimes fray: loyalties are tested and love creates its own snares as each character faces the triumphs and tragedies that befall them.
		In A Good House, Bonnie Burnard exposes the human heart with delicacy and daring.
	www.randomhouse.com.au /rha/books/goodhouse.htm (132 words)

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		Although, as Burnard says, the book is never a joint enterprise between author and editor, an experienced reader can spot books where better editing would have helped.
		Bonnie Burnard just keeps racking up the achievements with every book she publishes: Women of Influence won the 1988 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book; Casino and Other Stories was short-listed for the Giller Prize in 1994.
		Burnard denies that the quiet strength that seems to infuse her characters is unique to small towns.
	www.oxfordbookshop.com /reviews/burnard.htm (495 words)

	International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
		So opens Bonnie Burnard's brilliant, superbly crafted novel about three generations of an ordinary smalltown family from the 1950s to the 1990s.
		Burnard has created people we can all recognise and her compelling characterization cuts close to the bone.
		Bonnie Burnard's 'Casino & Other Stories' was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and won the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award.
	www.impacdublinaward.ie /2001/goodhouse.htm (328 words)

	Quill And Quire
		Burnard picks up the story as Bill returns from the Second World War, minus the fingers of his right hand but ready to begin a family and build a life.
		Burnard moves from her first establishing shot of Stonebrook at mid-century to close in on moments â“ be they intimate or casual or dramatic â“ that alter life profoundly.
		Burnardâs wise and assured first novel is an accomplishment to celebrate.
	www.quillandquire.com /reviews/review.cfm?review_id=1448 (368 words)

	A Good House - Burnard, Bonnie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		First-t ime novelist Bonnie Burnard, however, evades such worn grooves with the pur est renunciation: a patient and lovely voice.
		W hen Sylvia dies and Bill remarries, his staunch and pragmatic bride Margare t displays a three-fold capacity: she allows him his sluggish and methodica l affection; she preserves Sylvia's memory with untainted regard; and she c ultivates a deft empathy with her stepchildren.
		Burnard's meticulous pacing nearly, but never quite, upstages the story itself, although her unwieldy and expanding cast of characters occasionally threatens such harm.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Casino and Other Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The subject of numerous media profiles and reader attention since the award, Burnard is on her way to becoming a household literary name.
		Casino & Other Stories is Burnard’s second collection of short stories, also nominated for a Giller Prize and the winner of the Saskatchewan Best Book of the Year Award.Pulling us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory, Burnard makes the unremarkable seem remarkable, and the unspoken seem significant.
		Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0002242559 (302 words)

	Enlaces : Arts : Literature : World_Literature : Canadian : Authors : Novelists : Burnard,_Bonnie :: 100cia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Canadian Authors on 2000: Bonnie Burnard - The author discusses 'imperfect' families..
		Lifewise: Bonnie Burnard - Profile and chapter one of 'A Good House'..
		Bonnie Burnard wins the Giller Prize - Article from CBC Infoculture with sound files.
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	Bonnie Burnard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bonnie Burnard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Bonnie Burnard (born January 15 1945) is a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian (Someone who writes novels) novelist who lives in (Click link for more info and facts about London, Ontario) London, Ontario.
		In 1995 she was awarded the (Click link for more info and facts about Marian Engel Award) Marian Engel Award.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bonnie_burnard.htm (102 words)

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		Bonnie Burnard’s A Good House was the #1 bestseller in Canada and the winner of the 1999 Giller Prize.
		She is also the recipient of the Marian Engel Award, which honours a female author in mid-career.
		Born in Southern Ontario, Bonnie Burnard lived for many years in Regina and now lives in London, Canada, where she was recently writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario.
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	Lifewise - Author Profile: Bonnie Burnard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bonnie Burnard is a writer, creative writing teacher and reviewer who has won numerous literary awards for her work.
		Burnard's work has been widely anthologized and dramatized on CBC Radio.
		Born in Southwestern Ontario, she lived for many years in Regina and now lives in London, Ontario, where she was recently writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario.
	www.canoe.ca /LifewiseBookClub/profile_bonnie.html (151 words)

	LookSmart - Directory - Bonnie Burnard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bonnie Burnard - Become familiar with the work of this author of "A Good House."
		Emily Myer pans Bonnie Burnard's "A Good House," stating that "my impression was that she does not truly understand about what she writes."
		Bonnie Burnard muses on families at the turn of the century in this piece for the CBC.
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	Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Canadian: Authors: Novelists: Burnard, Bonnie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Canadian Authors on 2000: Bonnie Burnard · The author discusses 'imperfect' families.
		Bonnie Burnard wins the Giller Prize · Article from CBC Infoculture with sound files.
		Lifewise: Bonnie Burnard · iweb · cached · Profile and chapter one of 'A Good House'.
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	International Readings at Harbourfront (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bonnie Burnard has authored two story collections, Women of Influence (winner of the Commonwealth First Book Award) and Casino and Other Stories (winner of the Saskatchewan Best Book Award and shortlisted for the Giller), both to critical acclaim.
		Her first novel, A Good House, is a deft and graceful work about three generations of a post-war southern Ontario family.
		Bonnie Burnard was born in southern Ontario, lived for many years in Saskatchewan, and now resides in London, Ontario.
	www.readings.org /bios/burnard_b.htm (114 words)

	Welcome to HarperCollins.ca
		Bonnie Burnard is a past winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best First Book Award for her first collection of short stories, Women of Influence.
		Her second collection, Casino & Other Stories, was nominated for a Giller Prize and was awarded the Saskatchewan Best Book of the Year Award.
		Born in southern Ontario, she lived for many years in Regina and now lives in London, Ontario.
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		Bonnie Burnard’s much celebrated A Good House has become a modern classic with its rendering of three generations of ordinary family life.
		Burnard brings her own original voice to the story, unfolding a wonderfully complex web of family emotions and loyalties.
		Her keen powers of observation, her mastery of detail, her wit and her sensitivity to emotional nuance create a moving and profound portrait of family life.
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	Biblio: A Good House by Burnard, Bonnie: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"It's as though Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN has been turned into a quiet, unassuming novel....While Burnard is brilliant at capturing the day-to-day domesticity of the family, she could be faulted for ignoring the events of the larger world that dominate the years from 1949 to 1997.
		While history goes on around the Chambers family, Burnard makes only brief mention of it.
		"At times, Burnard's everything-including-the-kitchen-sink story telling style can seem almost aggressively old-fashioned....More often than not, though, Burnard's painstaking focus on seemingly mundane details makes the events that shape her characters' lives not only believable but also somehow bigger than the moment, universally true." -- Louisa Kamps
	www.biblio.com /books/1924173.html (414 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Good House by Bonnie Burnard
		Praise for Bonnie Burnard's A Good House abounds, and much is warranted.
		Perhaps this is because of the nature of the chapters, jumping forward seven or more years at times, leaving us to fill in the blanks.
		Bonnie Burnard has written an engrossing first novel, and despite its flaws I would recommend that you read it.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=40 (349 words)

	Powell's Books - A Good House by Bonnie Burnard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By subject and style, Burnard is in the territory of Jon Hassler and Annie Proulx, in the ranks of Alice Munro and Carol Shields."
		Bill confronts the onset of old age less gracefully than anticipated, and throughout, his second wife, Margaret, remains, surprisingly, the family anchor.
		With her remarkable ability to probe the hidden, often disturbing landscapes of love and to illuminate the complexities of human experience, Bonnie Burnard brings to her deceptively simple narrative a clarity that is both moving and profound.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0312420323-3 (702 words)

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