Ring is the last installment in the Quincunx, a massively ambitious project: a sequence of five novels, not linked by plot but by their preoccupations, each taking the form of a different genre: pastoral, noir, travelogue, apologue. Ring is the romance. The Quincunx includes Pastoral, The Hidden Keys, Days by Moonlight, and Fifteen Dogs. The previous four novels have, among them, won the Giller Prize, two Writers’ Trust Fiction Prizes, and CBC Canada Reads. André Alexis rece