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Vital Signs

Vital Signs is the outcome of practice-led research in the area of narrative voice and the limitations of the text-based novel. It takes the issues of hybridity in McWatt’s previous work away from purely cultural notions of nationhood and ethnicity to a textual one, in which the concept of “the novel” is formally challenged through a narrative that includes international signs. These illustrations were investigated as signs for emotional abstractions, McWatt worked with a graphic designer in New York City to complete them. The novel has been critically acclaimed in Canada and the UK, and reviewed in The FT Weekend, the Daily Mail, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, NOW Magazine, RED Magazine, among many others. McWatt was an invited author at the Vancouver International Festival of Writers and the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. The novel has been nominated for the 2012 OCM Bocus Prize for Literature.

Review:

Winnipeg Free Press: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/not-enough-emotion-not-enough-sympathy-126445823.html

The Book Lounge: http://www.booklounge.co.za/2012/02/

Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Tg6tPh4a0