In the Language of Love
by Diane Schoemperlen
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In this astonishingly inventive novel, Diane Schoemperlen uses the 100 stimulus words from the Standard Word Association Test as a narrative framework for exploring her heroine's growing understanding of the meaning of love. A tour de force of wit and wordplay, In the Language of Love is a wise and compassionate collage of one woman's coming of emotional age.Tags
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Ihr zweites Buch, nach dem preisgekrönten Geschichten-Bilderbuch "Formen der Zuneigung" ihr erster Roman, repräsentiert eine abstrakte, aber für die Geschichte unglaublich passende Form. Die vielen kleinen Kapitel, die mitunter nur Auszüge aus Lexika oder zitierte Sätze sind, lassen das Buch zu einem Ganzen werden, das eine faszinierende Geschichte über das amüsante, traurige, show more abwechslungsreiche, normale Leben einer jungen Frau ist, sprich: ein Buch über die kleinen Dinge, die das Leben so treffend bezeichnen. show less
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Diane Schoemperlen is the author of the acclaimed novel "In the Language of Love", & of five short story collections including "Forms of Devotion" (Viking) & "The Man of My Dreams", which was nominated for Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her work has appeared widely in anthologies & magazines, including Ms. & Story. She lives in show more Kingston, Ontario. (Publisher Provided) Writer and editor Diane Schoemperlen was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada on July 9, 1954. She graduated from Lakehead University and has been working as a writer since 1986. Her works include In the Language of Love, which uses the 100 stimulus words of the standard psychological Word Association Test to tell the story of one woman from childhood to motherhood, and Forms of Devotion, which won the Governor General's Award. She has also edited such works as Vital Signs: New Women Writers in Canada, Coming Attractions, and The Journey Prize Anthology. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1994
- Dedication
- For Carla Douglas, my friend
- First words
- The mother slapped the plates down on the table in that way all angry mothers do. The father, folding up his newspaper, pretended not to notice. Maybe he was too busy thinking about other things. About a story he'd just read... (show all) in the paper about a man who'd murdered his wife and her lover in Toronto (that evil city), and in the photograph the man was being led from the courtroom with a black coat over his head.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Joanna waves too but she might as well be teetering on the edge of a crater on the moon, on the shores of the Sea of Tranquility perhaps, which even now is filing up with snow.
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