The borderline between fact and fabrication: a historical novel based on Arctic adventure weaves together source and story.(Afterlands)(Book review) From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Literary Review of Canada, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Afterlands Steven Heighton Knopf Canada 407 pages, hardcover ISBN 0676976778

Afterlands is a gripping adventure story that is also a complex meditation on the relation between history and the historical novel. All historical novels raise the question of how they are related to their source material. They claim to be fiction, but they also claim a place outside fiction. A reviewer's task in such an instance is to determine if a novel should be first beautiful or first accurate. Is it a historical novel or a historical novel? In Afterlands, Steven Heighton makes it clear: to ...

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