Mary Swann
By: Carol Shields
Contributors: Shields, Carol
Publisher: World Editions
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9789462380912
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Canadian Women poets; Murder; Fiction
Description: 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 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.
Notes: Published in Canada as Swann by Stoddart Publishing, 1987.