Mary Swann
Mary Swann

Author: Carol Shields

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912987221

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Mary Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband brutally murders her. Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann's existence - her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph - gradually vanish in this engrossing novel exploring the surprising afterlife of a murdered poet.

Swann
Swann

Author: Carol Shields

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2011-01-21

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 030736724X

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Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987. Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann's existence — her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph — gradually vanish as the characters in this engrossing novel become caught up in their own concepts of who Mary Swann was.

Mary Swann
Mary Swann

Author: Carol Shields

Publisher: London : Paladin

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780586091517

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The Swan House (The Swan House Series Book #1)
The Swan House (The Swan House Series Book #1)

Author: Elizabeth Musser

Publisher: Bethany House

Published: 2001-07-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1441207163

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Mary Swan Middleton has always taken for granted the advantages of her family's wealth. But a tragedy that touches all of Atlanta sends her reeling in grief. When the family maid challenges her to reach out to the less fortunate as a way to ease her own pain, Mary Swan meets Carl--and everything changes. For although Carl is her opposite in nearly every way, he has something her privileged life could not give her. And when she seeks his help to uncover a mystery, she learns far more than she ever could have imagined.

Flower Children
Flower Children

Author: Maxine Swann

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-06-03

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781594483110

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'A work of stunning lyricism and intense originality' (Mary Gordon, author of Pearl). From an award-winning short story writer comes this spare, lively, moving novel, quickly embraced by critics and readers, portraying the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the 1970's and 80's. Based on the author's own upbringing, Flower Children tells the story of four children growing up in rural Pennsylvania, impossibly at odds with their surroundings. In time, as the sheltered utopia their parents have created begins to collapse, the children long for structure and restraint-and all their parents have avoided.

Southside Virginia Families
Southside Virginia Families

Author: John Bennett Boddie

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0806300418

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The second volume of the set (see Item 531) covers more families from the early counties of Virginia's Lower Tidewater and Southside regions. With an index in excess of 10,000 names.

The Boys in the Trees
The Boys in the Trees

Author: Mary Swan

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0345808037

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A tragic event sends a small town reeling in Mary Swan's brilliant, Scotiabank Giller-nominated The Boys in the Trees, a haunting exploration of one family's desperation. For the first time in Vintage Canada. William, his wife and 2 daughters, new immigrants to a small town in southern Ontario, are the picture of a devoted family. But when he is accused of embezzlement, William commits an unthinkable crime, and those who believed him to be an affectionate, attentive father are brought up short. Mary Swan examines the intricate and unexpected connections between the people in this close-knit community that continue to echo into the future. In her nuanced, evocative descriptions, a locket contains immeasurable sorrow, trees provide refuge for lost souls and grief clicks into place when a man cocks the cold-steel hammer of a revolver. A supreme literary achievement, The Boys in the Trees offers a chilling story that swells with acutely observed emotion and humanity.

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction
The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction

Author: Pamela Bedore

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-02-27

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1003852610

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Who are the most important Canadian crime and detective writers? How do they help represent Canada as a nation? How do they distinguish Canada’s approach to questions of crime, detection, and social justice from those of other countries? The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction provides a much-needed investigation into how crime and detection have been, are, and will be represented within Canada’s national literature, with an attention to contemporary popular and literary texts. The book draws together a representative set of established Canadian authors who would appear in most courses on Canadian crime and detective fiction, while also introducing a few authors less established in the field. Ultimately, the book argues that crime fiction is a space of enormously productive hybridity that offers fresh new approaches to considering questions of national identity, gender, race, sexuality, and even genre.