Lovers & other strangers / Carol Malyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malyon, Carol, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Women.

Women--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

172 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Lovers and other strangers

Place of Publication:

Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill ; [Toronto] : General Distribution Services [distributor], [1996]

Summary:

Carol Malyon writes of women's lives, of their relationships with lovers, mothers, children, other women. She explores the relationships between memory and truth. Lovers & Other Strangers consists of small stories, snapshots of women's lives in specific times and situations. The setting and characters vary but the theme remains fixed: that there is a fundamental and irreconcilable discord between men and women, in their view of the world, their modes of communication, the way they view themselves, the way they view others.Carol Malyon's stories are nearly all unconventionally brief and intense in feeling. They are essentially a poet's stories but they most definitely are not that revolting hybrid prose-poetry'. This writing is hard, direct, forceful. She is among those writers who are forcing us to reconsider the nature and form of the short story in Canada.

ISBN:

0889841691

OCLC:

35178757