MOSTLY COUNTRY Rosemary Nixon Edmonton, NeWest Press, 1991. 117pp, paper, $9.95 ISBN 0-920897-96-7. (Nunatak fiction, 3). CIP Adult Reviewed by Gerri Young. Volume 19 Number 5 1991 October Typically Canadian, a book of short stories that have no beginnings or endings and deal with real chunks of rural life. Many Canadians have become literary superstars with just this type of fiction. Canadian short stories get high praise, good reviews and awards. The authors are clever and have good writing skills, as does this one. However, I did not find these depressing stories appealing at all. The reader does not get a chance to know or care about the characters, or to under­stand their lives, and the overall mood is melancholy. Although sometimes the same characters appear in more than one story, they do not even seem related, let alone the same person. For lovers of Canlit short stories only. Gerri Young, Fort Nelson, B.C.