SOURCE: "Story Postponed," in Canadian Literature, No. 115, Winter, 1987, pp. 218-20.

In the following review, Fee contends that Thomas 's best fiction in Goodbye Harold, Good Luck combines traditional subjects with subtle experimental techniques.

[In Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, once again] Audrey Thomas creates compelling images: a man offering a woman a captured hummingbird to hold, another man tearing a tentacle off an octopus and throwing it to a girl who winds it around her wrist "like some horrible bracelet," a set of children's sandals in graduated sizes, a jar full of baby teeth, a message appearing magically on a steamy hotel mirror. Once again we move through her literary landscapes: Ghana, Galiano, Edinburgh, Greece. And once again Thomas shows her command of a variety of styles.

George Bowering has attempted to categorize Thomas's work on the basis of style, suggesting in the Audrey Thomas issue of A Room...