Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Sleeping with the Insane
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1995
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864921574
- Publish Date
- Apr 1995
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Jennifer Mitton's 1992 novel Fadimatu was called "powerful," "engrossing," "richly textured," and "revealing." The eleven stories in Sleeping with the Insane portray these qualities in subtle and startling ways. Sexuality — its painful expression and equally painful suppression — is a common theme throughout this collection, a shifting ground upon which themes of compulsion, transgression, fear, and desire are played out. Readers follow Mitton into the dream-like yet very real Marseille of "A Period of Weakness," past the anonymous any-town of "Spies," or through the emphatically surreal Vancouver of "Rules for the Living," captive participants in her almost-familiar worlds.
About the author
A teacher by profession, Mitton studied in France and taught in Nigeria as well as in Vancouver, where she now lives. A woman of many talents, she is a former editor of Prism International; she wrote and illustrated Bonjour Minuit, a young adult novel; an she reviews regularly for The Toronto Star and The Vancouver Sun.
