Book Review: The Day The Falls Stood Still, by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Date of Review:
Sep.25.2009
Published Work:
Reviewer:
Frank Moher
Source:
National Post
Halfway through The Day the Falls Stood Still, a first novel by Toronto author Cathy Marie Buchanan, I thought it might be a worthy companion to Timothy Findley’s First World War novel, The Wars — a sort of distaff variation on themes of violence and love. By the time I was through, though, I realized that would do it a disservice. In writerly terms, it is a better novel than The Wars — more convincing, less grandiloquent. And its reach is both broader and deeper.
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About Cathy
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN is the author of The Painted Girls, a novel set in belle époque Paris and inspired by the real-life model for Degas’s Little Dancer Aged 14. Her debut novel, The Day the Falls Stood Still, was a New York Times bestseller, a Barnes &...