Theme for Diverse Instruments - Softcover

Rule, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941483630 ISBN 13: 9780941483636

Publisher: Naiad Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Fourteen stories deal with a happy lesbian couple, a witness to the capture of a fugitive, a non-conformist family, and a young woman's involvement with a conventional-appearing husband and wife

About this title

Review

Cool, clear-eyed, compassionate and unsentimental, Jane Rule’s work compares very well with the best fiction written anywhere.”
Margaret Laurence, Globe and Mail



“Cool, clear-eyed, compassionate and unsentimental, Jane Rule’s work compares very well with the best fiction written anywhere.”
―Margaret Laurence, Globe and Mail

About the Author

Jane Rule
Jane Rule was born in New Jersey in 1931 and came to Canada in 1956, where she later taught at the University of British Columbia. Her first novel, Desert of the Heart (1964, Talonbooks 1991), was made into a movie in the 1980s. Rule emerged as one of the most respected writers in Canada with her many novels, essays and collections of short stories, including Theme for Diverse Instruments (1975). Rule passed away in 2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: Naiad Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941483630
• ISBN 13: 9780941483636
• Binding: Paperback