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Mastering Effective English (A Linguistic Fable)

Short Story

by (author) Diane Schoemperlen

Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Initial publish date
Dec 2012
Category
General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443419307
    Publish Date
    Dec 2012
    List Price
    $0.99

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Description

Naomi Smith, a schoolteacher, is unlucky in love. With a penchant for travel, she finds herself lying on a beach on a remote island, when a local man named Iquito suddenly kisses the small of her back.

The stories in Red Plaid Shirt span twenty years of Diane Schoemperlen’s challenging and innovative writing. Told in her fresh and often deadpan comedic voice, they offer a compulsively readable mix of deeply felt emotion and finely wrought intellect. This collection was shortlisted for the Upper Canada Brewing Company Writers’ Craft Award.

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About the author

DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN is the award-winning author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction. Her works include In the Language of Love, which was short-listed for the Books in Canada/W.H. Smith First Novel Award; Forms of Devotion, a collection of illustrated stories which won the Governor General’s Award and was adapted as a stage play; Our Lady of the Lost and Found; Red Plaid Shirt: New and Selected Stories; Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the Victims of September 11; and At a Loss for Words: A Post-Romantic Novel. She recently published a collection called By the Book: Stories and Pictures, illustrated with her own full-colour collages, which was long listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She is the recipient of the Marian Engel Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada.

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