num_pages: 313
description: 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.
language: English
title: Swann; a Mystery
titlecomplete: Swann; a Mystery
characters: Morton Jimroy, Rose Hindmarch, Frederic Cruzzi, Sarah Maloney
genres: 20th Century, Books About Books, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Mystery
ratings_count: 2206
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Arthur Ellis Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Stoddart