THE OTHER SIDE OF DAILINESS: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE WORKS OF ALICE MUNRO, TIMOTHY FINDLEY. MICHAEL ONDAATJE AND MARGARET LAURENCE. York, Lorraine. Toronto. ECW Press, 1988. 180pp. paper, ISBN1-55022-003-9 (cloth) $25.00, 1-55022-002-0 (paper) $15.00. CIP Grades 12 and up Reviewed by Alan Thomas Volume 16 Number 5 1988 September Photography is a gift from the nineteenth century to the twentieth. York argues that modernist and postmodernist writers have seized upon that gift and employed it to assist them in writing "non-linear" fiction. Her group of Writers all refer to or use photographs in their novels, and her thesis holds that photography's influence is also to be found in the form of their works. It cannot be denied that a widespread cultural phenomenon, such as the photograph, will be used by the contemporary writer. This is well demonstrated in the opening section on Alice Munro, whose work provides the title and whose usage frequently consists in going beyond or behind the photo—to what it does not show. The argument of formal influence is more difficult to make. York is most successful with Findley's The Wars (Clarke, Irwin, 1977). As she presses the thesis through Ondaatje and Laurence, very different writers. It becomes blurred and diffused. Students may find the discussion of particular works most useful; there is an Index to help them, a bibliography and six black-and-white photographs. Alan Thomas, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.