Passing Ceremony: (A List Edition)
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Helen Weinzweig (Author) Jim Polk (Contributor)
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The brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of Basic Black With Pearls.
In Helen Weinzweig's brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom - and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.
Like a piece of music, Passing Ceremony is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges. A satire and a rueful meditation on the ways people hurt one another, Weinzweig gives us a world suspended in time, an uneasy territory of the soul, which we all inhabit.
This edition features a new introduction by Jim Polk. Illustrations, unspecified
About the Author
HELEN WEINZWEIG is the author of the novels Passing Ceremony and Basic Black with Pearls, winner of the Toronto Book Award. Her short story collection, A View from the Roof, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Helen Weinzweig died in Toronto in 2010.
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- Contributor: Helen Weinzweig
- Imprint: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
- ISBN13: 9781487002602
- Number of Pages: 128
- Packaged Dimensions: 139x215x7mm
- Packaged Weight: 181
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
- Release Date: 2017-09-21
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: HELEN WEINZWEIG is the author of the novels Passing Ceremony and Basic Black with Pearls, winner of the Toronto Book Award. Her short story collection, A View from the Roof, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Helen Weinzweig died in Toronto in 2010.
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