Well Played Octothorp, Was one of my top picks for the category as well. I was hoping it would have stuck around past the first round I guess.
I select with the my first pick and fourth over all from the CANLIT category
The Deptford Trilogy.
Robertson Davies
The trilogy consists of
Fifth Business (
1970),
The Manticore (
1972), and
World of Wonders (
1975)
The reason for the pick is the mixture of Canadiana, great narrative, splattered with Jungian archetypal symbolism. Fifth Business was a great read on its own but I have never previously been exposed to the idea of a retelling of a story by the same author where the antagonist and protagonists swap roles in the follow up novel. Cool cool concept.
When I was invited to join this thread this was my first selection in my head. Not many Albertan were exposed to this in High School. I found Canlit (outside of Atwood) after high school and have never looked back.