Synopsis
In this brilliant first novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream in which the bride, groom, family and guests struggle with private obsessions, guilty fantasies of sex and power, and the constant failure of love. The bride is not all she seems, there is something ambiguous about the groom and just about everyone else in this surreal nuptial party...
There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues which have a way of sliding into mad comic banality; scenes which might be quiet nightmares out of Borges or Antonioni...
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About the Author
Helen Weinzweig is the author of the novels Passing Ceremony and Basic Black with Pearls, winner of the Toronto Book Award. Her short story collection, A View from the Roof, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Helen Weinzweig died in Toronto in 2010.
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