The Wives of Bath
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2001
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780676974546
- Publish Date
- Jul 2001
- List Price
- $25.00
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Description
Swan’s international bestselling novel The Wives of Bath, is both a shocking Gothic tale about a murder in a girls’ boarding school and an adolescent confession. Mouse and Paulie, reluctant fourteen-year-old boarders at Bath Ladies College, are confronted by the slippery quest for one small, vital thing: the thing that definitively makes boys different from girls.
The novel was made into the feature film Lost and Delirious, shown in 34 countries. Since the film’s debut, young women all over the world have role-played the parts of Mouse, Tory and Paulie on the Lost and Delirious website.
About the author
SUSAN SWAN's fiction has been published in twenty countries and received numerous honours. Her first novel, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World (1983), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for fiction and the Smith’s Best First Novel Award, and is currently being made into a film. Her other books include the short story collection Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With (1996), the novel Last of the Golden Girls (1989), and The Wives of Bath (1993). The film adaptation of The Wives of Bath, called Lost and Delirious, has been released in 32 countries and was featured as a Premiere Selection at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Her most recent novel, What Casanova Told Me (2001), was published to rave reviews. Susan Swan lives in Toronto, Ontario, and is an associate professor of Humanities at York University.
Editorial Reviews
“Raunchy, funny and fast-paced…the kind of book women have been waiting for.” —Ottawa Citizen
“A wry coming-of-age story built around a murder tale that bristles with sexual secrets.” —The Boston Globe
“The Wives of Bath is a classic.” —Financial Post
“Extremely funny...a thoroughly modern tale of shifting sexualities.” —The Sunday Times
