THE FACE IN THE GARDEN John Lent Saskatoon (Sask.), Thistledown Press, 1990. 175pp, paper, $14.95 ISBN 0-920633-75-7. CIP Adult Reviewed by Elinor Kelly. Volume 19 Number 2 1991 March John Lent is a teacher at Okanagon College and has published three other books. The Face in the Garden is two parts narrative and the last part poetry. Some of the pieces have been published previously in periodicals or collections. The theme is a young man's effort to understand himself, his situation, his family and especially his father. The glimpses of childhood, of the struggling writer in cheap flats and the relation­ships are agonizingly real. As the young man struggles, the reader also struggles with the meaning of disconnected episodes and settles in the end into the relief of poetry. There is no resolution in the prose, no easy answer: the imagery remains obscure. This is not an easy book but one for readers of serious modern writing. Elinor Kelly, Port Hope, Ont.