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Hodgins's first novel, The Invention of the World (1977), uses contemporary characters to re-create the mythic birth of Donal Keneally, who led Irish villagers to establish a colony in western Canada. The next novel is also reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude; in The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, or, A Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miraclesor, (1980), a tidal wave washes ashore in western Canada a ship from Peru and a "Peruvian seabird." This odd occurrence sets off a series of bizarre events that the locals accept without question. The Honorary Patron (1987) continues the saga of northern Canada's lonely reaches; this time the central character returns to the area after a long absence and brings about peculiar happenings. Hodgins has also published two volumes of short stories in the same mode as his novels. (Bowker Author Biography) |