 Forms Of Devotion - Diane Schoemperlen
Eleven stories with a brilliant interplay between
words and images – a creative delight, perfectly
formed and rich in wit and irony. Wood engravings
and line drawings, often in collage, from the
seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, add
multi-layers of meaning with playful, sometimes
surreal, and often mysterious juxtapositions.
‘She takes familiar models – the fairy tale, the
murder mystery, the instruction manual – and
experiments with them’ (New York Times)
‘Filled with wry humour . . . an incredible
ability to capture both the mundane and the
erotically charged’ - Globe and Mail, Toronto
‘Her ambitious irony and her eclectic
matching of idea to form combine in a rare
and often beautiful virtuosity . . . an incredibly
agile writer with a wonderful ear, and a
thinker with elegant, difficult ideas . . . her
work is a show not to be missed’ - Boston
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About the Author
DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN has published five
collections of short stories and two novels, which
have won many awards in her native Canada.
Publication date for Forms of Devotion: 14th June 2006
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