A collection of stories about life’s outsiders. Sometimes shocking, but all sensitively written. A collection of stories with a difference.
June 2010 Guest Editor Patrick Gale on Barbara Gowdy...
As yet the only collection of stories from this consistently brilliant Canadian novelist, this is every bit as unsettling as Ian McEwan’s notorious early books. The title tale of necrophilia is the one everyone remembers but my particular favourite is Presbyterian Crosswalk, a funny, nasty tale of childhood anxiety and religious mania.
A young, beautiful, female necrophile, obsessed with the moment that life turns to death, begins an intense relationship with a medical student that inevitably leads to tragedy. This short story was the basis for the critically acclaimed film Kissed.Hailed as "e;remarkable and uplifting"e; by The Globe and Mail and published to equally glowing acclaim around the world, Barbara Gowdy's groundbreaking collection of stories, We So Seldom Look on Love, pushes past the limits of convention into lives that are fantastic and heartbreakingly real.HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
'Gowdy is a writer now emerging as one of Canada's most accomplished and outrageous! We So Seldom Look on Love will only deepen her reputation for fine technique and alarming content. These are unsettling and profoundly moving short stories to be read, and reread, and then to be dreamt upon! this is a remarkable and uplifting book.' Toronto Globe and Mail
'Barbara Gowdy's stunning collection plants her firmly in the constellation of Canada's bright literary lights! in this new set of stories she truly shines. Her insatiable curiousity, her candour and her cool wit emerge like chrysalids from the assembled deformity of this lively and memorable book.' Montreal Gazette
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About Barbara Gowdy
Barbara Gowdy lives in Toronto. She is the author of four previous works of fiction: 'Through the Green Valley', 'We So Seldom Look on Love', 'Falling Angels' and 'Mister Sandman'.
