Genni Gunn
Thrice Upon a Time
THRICE UPON A TIME, novel
Quarry Press, 1990
(Canada/Caribbean Division) (1990)
"Thrice Upon a Time is a wildly inventive novel..." – The Ottawa Citizen, Fall 1991
"There's a far-reaching imagination
at work in this book.." The Globe & Mail, August 1990
"Genni Gunn's fine novel, Thrice Upon a Time, is a challenging combination
of narratives that rewards the extra effort needed to read it...This novel is a creation of much originality, very successful in its
newness, and well arranged -- the sort of book one wished would continue another hundred pages." –
"Thrice Upon a Time is impressive in both craft and complexity." – Books in
"What
is fascinating in the knitting, unravelling and reknitting pattern of this story is the orchestration of voices. Gunn is a trained
musician with a perfect ear. She knows these women and they are right on pitch." -- The
"The
poet in Gunn transforms the terrain into a magical and memorable landscape." –
"... a beautifully
written, many-layered novel." -- The Whig-Standard
Thrice Upon a Time is the story of the search for the identity of an abandoned child -- an inventive novel which is at once a gripping
mystery and a morally resounding feminist history, set in
