By The Book

New from the Winner of the Writers'' Trust of Canada Marian Engel Award
and the Governor General''s Award for English Fiction

Once touted as compendiums of human knowledge, the encyclopedias and handbooks of bygone eras now read quaintly, if not comically—yet within their musty pages are often found phrases of uncanny evocative power. Scrupulously stitching such fragments together, in a sequel to th...