They didn't have the audiovisual technology that we do, but often their books were published in serialized form. It's written according to the Victorian Gothic genre. Why is Fayne a novel, and not a play, in this regard?įayne needs to be a novel. She describes the Victorian-era doorstopper novel as the perfect read for these November days. Information Morning - Saint John 13:48 Ann Marie Macdonald's "queerest" book yet Bestselling author Ann Marie Macdonald is in New Brunswick touring her new book, Fayne. LISTEN | Ann-Marie MacDonald on writing her 'queerest book yet:' It's like, I've made all this food and I'm inviting everyone to the party.
I am writing in order to craft an immersive experience for the reader. Obviously novels take so much time - they take me time anyway! But still, my first love, which is of being in front of a live audience personally, really does inform everything I do. It's just a question of how I apportion my energy at any given period. This has so much to do with my background versus a performer who then began writing for the theatre, who then morphed into a novelist. I write for the readers - just as if I'm writing a play. I don't write so that my words can remain in splendid, resonant isolation. The response to Fayne, your first novel in years, was strong, it was a bestseller. MacDonald spoke with CBC Books about Fayne, the legacy of Fall on Your Knees and her literary life and career.
The work explores gender, sex and loyalty and betrayal within love and friendship.įall on Your Knees still resonates with Canadian readers and is now being adapted to stage in 2023 - essentially bringing things full circle in terms of her designs on art, performance and literature. Her 2022 novel Fayne, her first in eight years, is about Charlotte Bell, a young woman growing up in the 19th century in a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland.
Her work includes the 2003 novel The Way the Crow Flies, another Giller Prize finalist, and the 2014 novel Adult Onset. The book won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book and it was a finalist for Canada Reads in 2010, when it was defended by track star Perdita Felicien. In 1996, MacDonald released her debut novel Fall on Your Knees and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. In addition to writing, she was the host of CBC's Doc Zone for eight years. She's the author of several bestselling novels. MacDonald, born in Germany, now lives between Toronto and Montreal. Rooted in theatrical and performance traditions and background, MacDonald's literary novels crackle with live energy as they use her own lived experience and perspective to illustrate themes of gender, sex, identity and family secrets. For writer, broadcaster and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald, the play's the thing.
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