THE ANTAGONIST By Lynn Coady (Anansi) Rank, the protagonist of Coady’s angry, funny, tender work, comes across himself in a novel by a former university pal. Outraged, he fires off a string of e-mails about what it was like to grow up as a huge boy continually mistaken for a tough guy, and who always gets the enforcer role on a hockey team. – Giles Blunt