The Lion in the Room Next Door - Rilegato

Simonds, Merilyn

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ISBN 10: 0771080662 ISBN 13: 9780771080661

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1999

Riassunto

In the title story, a child inhabits her own private realm within a maze of corridors and rooms in a hotel in Brazil; she comes to recognize the truth of what she has heard, even if it is a lion rumbling down the hallway in the night, even if her mother tells her it can't possibly be so. In "The Blue of the Madrugada," the girl grows into a willful young woman, and discovers the complexities of love by the light of blue candles. In "Taken for Delirium," amid the revolving seasons and nature's endless regeneration of the Ontario woods, the woman and her husband cope as their marriage falters. And in "The Still Point," the young wife and mother, in a Mexican landscape mysterious with unexplained occurrences, breaks free of her bonds.

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Informazioni sull'autore

<b>Merilyn Simonds</b> was born in Winnipeg, and spent her childhood in Brazil. Her previous books include the internationally acclaimed <i>The Lion in the Room Next Door </i>(1999)<i> </i>and <i>The Convict Lover </i>(1996), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and the Arthur Ellis Award. <i>The Convict Lover</i> premiered as a stage play at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille in 1998. <i>The Holding </i>is her first novel.<br><br>Simonds has worked as a freelance writer and a magazine editor, has taught courses in literary non-fiction, and has been a guest lecturer at colleges and universities in the U. S. and Canada. She has won several national awards for her magazine writing.<br><br>She lives outside Kingston, Ontario, with her husband, writer and tr

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nding collection of eleven stories chronicles the remarkable journey of one woman’s life from childhood to adulthood, through exotic landscapes, and through the darker, more mysterious terrain of the human heart. The title story inhabits a child’s private realm within the maze of corridors in a Brazilian hotel. Later, a toy gun from a cowgirl costume becomes the symbol of something all too real. In a cramped apartment in Sweden, a young wife finds herself caught in the tensions between her husband and his father. A wife slips the bonds of marriage on a beach in Mexico. In a desert canyon on the island of Kauai, a woman at middle age discovers just how much she is willing to risk. And, in the haunting final story, the death of a parent unlocks the grief of a child’s tragic death years before. Dazzling, evocative, daring, <i>The Lion in the Room Next Door</i> is an exquisitely crafted work of the imagination.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0771080662
• ISBN 13: 9780771080661
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272
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