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Title: Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures by Diane Schoemperlen ISBN: 0-00-648155-8 Publisher: HarperCollins Canada Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Pictures and Words in Perfect Harmony
Comment: Diane Schoemperlen said she found inspiration for this book when her young son asked her how come her books never have any pictures. She then had the brilliant idea to wrap short stories around antique drawings, 100 year old catalogue pictures and illustrations from the original Gray's Anatomy. The results are stories that are compelling on their own but are perfectly enhanced by the pictures put in them. A great gift or coffee table book to be flipped through again and again.
Rating: 4
Summary: cuts to the heart
Comment: It seems the earned province of Canadian women writers to cut to the heart of gender, race, and class privilege. In the title piece (I would not call it a story in the traditional character/plot sense) Schoemperlen explores a series of intangibles, among them faith, prayer, and hope, and very subtly weaves them into an indictment of middle class privilege. In a later story, "Count Your Blessings (a Fairy Tale)" Schoemperlen, in a twist reminiscent of the best Roald Dahl stories, cuts the heart out of the woman who has everything and is still unhappy. These stories are well-written, and are accompanied by clever old woodcut clip art. But unlike many short story collections, this is not an "easy" book, for the reader, and I suspect, for the author as well. The book jacket describes her work as "electric"--the prospective reader would do well to remember that electricity can shock as well as enlighten.
Rating: 5
Summary: A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BOOK
Comment: FORMS OF DEVOTION IS A WONDERFUL BOOK. DIANNE SCHOEMPERLEN TAKES THE SIMPLEST TOPICS AND MAKES THEM INTERESTING AND BEAUTIFUL. I WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.
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Title: In the Language of Love: A Novel in 100 Chapters by Diane Schoemperlen ISBN: 014025238X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Red Plaid Shirt: Stories by Diane Schoemperlen ISBN: 0142003204 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel by Diane Schoemperlen ISBN: 0142001325 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Friends in High Places by Donna Leon ISBN: 0099269325 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.01 |
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Title: Uniform Justice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon ISBN: 0871139030 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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