The Lion in the Room Next Door - Hardcover

Simonds, Merilyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771080662 ISBN 13: 9780771080661

Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1999

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Book by Simonds Merilyn

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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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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, The Lion in the Room Next Door is an exquisitely crafted work of the imagination.

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• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0771080662
• ISBN 13: 9780771080661
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 257