Other Women

Lau, Evelyn

ISBN 10: 0394224973 / ISBN 13: 9780394224978

Published by Vintage Canada, Toronto, 1996

About this Item

8vo. 193 pp. Second printing.

Seller Inventory # 003554

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Other Women
• Publisher: Vintage Canada, Toronto
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394224973
• ISBN 13: 9780394224978
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Fiona, an accomplished young artist, falls in love with Raymond. An older married man.  Their haunted relationship evolves in a floating melange of restaurants and hotel rooms against the looming backdrop of their separate, anonymous cities.  Although erotically charged, the affair is never consummated - yet the love Fiona feels intensifies into an obsession that continues to possess her long after Raymond leaves her.  Along the way, at receptions and restaurant tables, at dinner parties and on trips, Fiona meets other men and women in relationships that are coming together or falling apart-friendships, marriages, love affairs - each offering their own version of love's nature.  And, throughout, Raymond's wife Helen holds a central place.  For Fiona, Helen herself is "the other woman" - mysterious, enviable and untouchable.

About the Author

Evelyn Lau's first book, Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, was published in 1989 when she was eighteen. It became a Canadian bestseller and was recently made into a CBC-TV movie. Lau is also the author of the acclaimed book of short stories Fresh Girls and Other Stories, as well as three poetry collections. In 1992 she became the youngest poet ever to be nominated for the Governor General's Award. Evelyn Lau lives and works in Vancouver.