backofthebook.ca editor Frank Moher talks with Kenneth J. Harvey, author of this Fall’s Giller-nominated novel Blackstrap Hawco. Read Frank’s review of the book here. Moher: Were you born in Newfoundland? Harvey: I was born in St John’s, grew up in St. John’s. My folks are from Bell Island, which is a small island off the […]
Son of the rock
BLACKSTRAP HAWCOBy Kenneth J. HarveyRandom House Canada848 pages, $34.95 Review by Frank MoherBlackstrap Hawco is a big book, but it’s also what used to be called a Big Book. This was a genre hatched in the 1950s and ’60s by U.S. authors anxious to prove that their Big Book was bigger than other U.S. authors’ […]
