THE LION IN THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

Simonds, Merilyn

ISBN 10: 0771080662 / ISBN 13: 9780771080661

Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1999

About this Item

259 pp. Beige boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art by Erik Mohr. This story collection contains: King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West; Nossa Senhora dos Remedios; The Blue of the Madrugada; Navigating the Kattegat; The Distance to Delphi; Taken for Delirium; The Still Point; In the City of the Split Sky; Song of the Japanese White-Eye; The Day of the Dead; and The Lion in the Room Next Door. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 227187

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LION IN THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
• Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771080662
• ISBN 13: 9780771080661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Erik Mohr
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

In the title story, a child inhabits her own private realm within a maze of corridors and rooms in a hotel in Brazil; she comes to recognize the truth of what she has heard, even if it is a lion rumbling down the hallway in the night, even if her mother tells her it can't possibly be so. In "The Blue of the Madrugada," the girl grows into a willful young woman, and discovers the complexities of love by the light of blue candles. In "Taken for Delirium," amid the revolving seasons and nature's endless regeneration of the Ontario woods, the woman and her husband cope as their marriage falters. And in "The Still Point," the young wife and mother, in a Mexican landscape mysterious with unexplained occurrences, breaks free of her bonds.

About the Author

<b>Merilyn Simonds</b> was born in Winnipeg, and spent her childhood in Brazil. Her previous books include the internationally acclaimed <i>The Lion in the Room Next Door </i>(1999)<i> </i>and <i>The Convict Lover </i>(1996), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and the Arthur Ellis Award. <i>The Convict Lover</i> premiered as a stage play at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille in 1998. <i>The Holding </i>is her first novel.<br><br>Simonds has worked as a freelance writer and a magazine editor, has taught courses in literary non-fiction, and has been a guest lecturer at colleges and universities in the U. S. and Canada. She has won several national awards for her magazine writing.<br><br>She lives outside Kingston, Ontario, with her husband, writer and tr