Liar
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2006
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887847455
- Publish Date
- Feb 2006
- List Price
- $18.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770890763
- Publish Date
- Feb 2006
- List Price
- $10.99
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Description
At once casting aside and reinventing the confessional mode, Liar is a booklength monument to love found, betrayed, renounced, and ultimately accepted as transformative. The white-hot immediacy of detail and scorching emotional honesty of Liar make for a compelling tour through one lover's accounting for her own actions and those of her beloved. From the delusion of ownership to the pain of estrangement, Crosbie's surgical intelligence exposes what romantics so often refuse to acknowledge: the lover's own complicity in her joy and suffering.
Swinging between the grotesque and the beautiful, Crosbie's depiction of the lover adrift alters how we think of the love poem -- indeed, how we think of passion itself.
About the author
Poet, author, and novelist Lynn Crosbie was born and raised in Montreal. An award-winning journalist and cultural critic, she has written about fashion, sports, art, and celebrity. She has a Ph.D. in English literature and a background in visual studies; she teaches at the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her volumes of poetry and prose include Queen Rat, Dorothy L’Amour, and Liar. She is the author of the controversial book Paul’s Case, about the Paul Bernardo–Karla Homolka murders, as well as the novels Life Is About Losing Everything and Where Did You Sleep Last Night, a Trillium Book Award finalist. Her most recent book is a collection of poems about her father, entitled The Corpses of the Future.
Awards
- Long-listed, ReLit Awards - Poetry
- Short-listed, Pat Lowther Memorial Award
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Life Is About Losing Everything
Missing Children
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New and Selected Poems
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