![]() ![]() The New Canadian Library (NCL) saw this as a sufficiently important book to reissue it and continue to reprint it to this date. I would sum up their relationship as frustrated, sensitise artist uses adoring wife as doormat. Philip Bentley is a frustrated painter who seems oblivious to the equal frustrations of his wife, who had artistic ambitions of her own which she sacrificed to her husband’s career. It’s about story telling for me and without plot you don’t have much of a story.Ī protestant minister, Philip Bentley and his wife move to a small prairie town, the latest in a long line of small prairie towns. ![]() Without plot setting and character are pretty dull for me. From the literary triptych of plot, setting and character we have lots of setting, plenty of character but not much plot. This is a book that I did not particularly enjoy. ![]() It is from that post that I decided to have a go at it. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1994.īrian Busby, from The Dusty Bookcase did a post on this book. ![]()
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