Bellevue Square (novel)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bellevue Square

Author	Michael Redhill
Language	English
Genre	Fiction, Thriller
Publication date	September 19, 2017
Publication place	Canada
Pages	272
ISBN	978-0-38568-483-5

Bellevue Square is a Canadian novel by Michael Redhill, published by Doubleday Canada in 2017.^[1]

Plot

The novel centers on Jean Mason, a bookstore owner in Toronto, Ontario's Kensington Market neighbourhood who learns that she has an apparent doppelgänger named Ingrid Fox in the market's park, Bellevue Square, and becomes obsessed with finding the woman.^[1]^[2] The two people who have told about her double are soon dead, and Jean decides to camp out in the market to facilitate her search. Her behaviour becomes more and more bizarre.^[3]

Critical reception

The novel won the CA$100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2017.^[4]^[5] The book was described by the jury members as having "complex literary wonders".^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Henley, Tara (September 22, 2017). "Michael Redhill's Bellevue Square a story 'that won't soon be forgotten'". Toronto Star..
^ "How Michael Redhill used the building blocks of genre fiction to win the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC News, Ryan B. Patrick · November 20, 2017
^ "Michael Redhill's New Novel Leaves Readers Seeing Double". The Walrus, by Emily Donaldson, Nov. 20, 2017
^ Ahearn, Victoria (November 20, 2017). "Michael Redhill wins Scotiabank Giller Prize". The Canadian Press via CTV News.
^ "Giller prize will help author Michael Redhill make ends meet". Toronto Star, Deborah Dundas, Nov. 20, 2017
^ "Michael Redhill Wins 2017 Giller Prize". Canadian Press, 11/20/2017. Victoria Ahearn

External links

Bellevue Square - Penguin Random House Canada

v t e Recipients of the Giller Prize
1990s	M. G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (1994) Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996) Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version (1997) Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (1998) Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (1999)
2000s	Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children (2000) Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (2002) M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003) Alice Munro, Runaway (2004) David Bergen, The Time in Between (2005) Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006) Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (2007) Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (2008) Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man (2009)
2010s	Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists (2010) Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (2011) Will Ferguson, 419 (2012) Lynn Coady, Hellgoing (2013) Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (2014) André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs (2015) Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) Michael Redhill, Bellevue Square (2017) Esi Edugyan, Washington Black (2018) Ian Williams, Reproduction (2019)
2020s	Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife (2020) Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise (2021) Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter (2022) Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience (2023) Anne Michaels, Held (2024)

This article about a Canadian novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

Categories:

Hidden categories: