Love Is Starving For Itself
- Publisher
- The Mercury Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1997
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551280158
- Publish Date
- Sep 1997
- List Price
- $16.50
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Description
In this second volume of the trilogy which opened with Beneath the Western Slopes, Patrick Roscoe brilliantly explores love as it is experienced by three generations of the Lopez family and their lovesick neighbours.
About the author
Patrick Roscoe, author of Love Is Starving for Itself, is a world traveller and the author of two collections of short stories, Beneath the Western Slopes (Stoddart, 1987) and Birthmarks (Penguin Canada, 1990). His novel God’s Peculiar Care (Viking Penguin, 1991) appeared in Canada and the UK. His short fiction has received the 1984 Magazine Award for Fiction, the 1985 Canadian Fiction Magazine Annual Contributors’ Prize, a 1987 Okanagan Fiction Award, and First Prize for Short Story in the 1989 CBC Literary Competitions. Patrick Roscoe currently divides his time between Vancouver, Sevilla, and El Jadida, Morocco.