Further Reading
- Amussen, Robert. "Finding a Writer." Room of One's Own 10, No. 3 & 4 (March 1986): 63-67. (Explains how the author, as publisher and editor-in-chief at the Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1965, discovered Thomas's writing and began publishing her works.)
- Barnwell, Kathryn. "Tales of Gender." The Canadian Forum LXIX, No. 796 (January-February 1991): 29-30. (Observes that The Wild Blue Yonder is about "male anger directed not only against women, but also against men who refuse to be 'manly'.")
- Bellamy, Robin V. H. "Audrey Thomas: A Select Bibliography." Room of One's Own 10, No. 3 & 4 (March 1986): 154-75. (Compilation of writings by and about Thomas, including book reviews by writers such as Margaret Atwood and Margaret Laurence.)
- Butling, Pauline. "Thomas and Her Rag-Bag." Canadian Literature No. 102 (Autumn 1984): 195-99. (Asserts that Thomas creates fiction that permits the presentation of new female character types. Butling focuses on the collections Ten Green Bottles, Ladies and Escorts, and Real Mothers.)
- Colvile, Georgiana. "Mirrormania: Audrey Thomas's Munchmeyer and Prospero on the Island." Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Americaines No. XX (1987): 147-56. (Analyzes Thomas's novellas according to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's notion of the "mirror stage" of psychological development, in which "the imago in the mirror … is both self and other.")
- Corbeil, Carole. A review of The Wild Blue Yonder. Saturday Night 106, No. 1 (January-February 1991): 50. (Commends Thomas's collection, finding the stories engaging and the style straightforward and lucid.)
- Dorscht, Susan Rudy. "Blown Figures and Blood: Toward a Feminist/Post-Structuralist Reading of Audrey Thomas' Writing." Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature, edited by John Moss, pp. 221-27. Ottawa, Can.: University of Ottawa Press, 1987. (Examines the notions of identity and selfhood as perceived in Thomas's novels, the novellas Munchmeyer and Prospero on the Island, and the story "If One Green Bottle.")
- Garebian, Keith. A review of Goodbye Harold, Good Luck. Quill & Quire 52, No. 7 (July 1986): 59. (Favorable assessment of Thomas's collection. Garebian observes that "her fiction is most often centred on points of view and on what Joyce called 'epiphanies' of truth.")
- Gerson, Carole. A review of Goodbye Harold, Good Luck. Queen's Quarterly 94, No. 2 (Summer 1987): 483-84. (According to Gerson, Thomas excels at "penetrating expositions of characters and their unresolvable muddles, which lead the reader along the delicate filaments of the tangled relationships we all spin for ourselves as parents, children, spouses, lovers, and friends.")
- Godard, Barbara. Audrey Thomas and Her Works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1989, 89 p. (Critical overview of Thomas's life and writings.)
- Howells, Coral Ann. "Inheritance and Instability: Audrey Thomas's Real Mothers." Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Americaines No. XX (1987): 157-62. (Contends that Thomas's Real Mothers challenges traditional barriers of male-oriented language and culture.)
- Novak, Barbara. "Lunar Distractions." Books in Canada 11, No. 2 (February 1982): 18-20. (Enthusiastic review of Real Mothers. Novak states that the stories in the collection evince "a complete mastery of form.")
- Scanlan, Larry. "Economy of the Moment." Books in Canada XIX, No. 6 (August 1990): 28-9. (Maintaining that Thomas's stories are "remarkable for their satiric insights into the sometimes awful state of human relations," Scanlan surveys the themes and plots in The Wild Blue Yonder.)
- Sherrin, Robert G. "In Esse." Room of One's Own 10, No. 3 & 4 (March 1986): 68-74. (Recounts a trip the author made with Thomas to her birthplace in Binghamton, New York.)
- Thomas, Audrey. "A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is." Canadian Literature No. 108 (Spring 1986): 5-12. (Discusses what Thomas considers the dangers of romance novels—the Harlequin series in particular—to women because of their demeaning, often violent, portrayal of sexual relationships.)
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