One Man at a Time: Secrets of a Serial Monogamist - Hardcover

Simpson, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1551990415 ISBN 13: 9781551990415

Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2001

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ted for the VanCity Book Prize 2001

I have always been loved by men. Even now, in the middle of middle age, I have found love again. It's the again of love that defines my life, the practice of serial monogamy. And yet the very phrase hints of murder – murder of the heart.

So begins Elizabeth Simpson's intimate memoir of her relationships with four men – her father and three husbands – over five decades. Each relationship coloured her life with distinct joys, sorrows, and lessons, and each was influenced by the expectations and sexual politics of the times. For those who travelled the same path, especially women in their forties and fifties, this poignant, often gently humorous work resonates with familiarity and truth.

In the fifties Simpson came of age on the prairies within the secure embrace of a close-knit family, a world in which the mutual dedication of her parents and all the messages of home-economics classes led her to expect

Biografía del autor

Elizabeth Simpson lives in Victoria, where she teaches Canadian literature at Camosun College. In 2000 she published the critically acclaimed One Man at a Time, which was shortlisted for the VanCity Book Prize. Her 1997 work, The Perfection of Hope: A Soul Transformed by Critical Illness, about her experience with lung cancer, was also shortlisted for the VanCity Book Prize as well as the B.C. Book Prize.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1551990415
• ISBN 13: 9781551990415
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch