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Fiction Literary

Maternity and Other Corsets

by (author) Siobhan Jamison

Publisher
Quattro Books
Initial publish date
Sep 2019
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781988254708
    Publish Date
    Sep 2019
    List Price
    $20

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Maternity and Other Corsets is the story of Maebh Murray as she chases the bohemian life through Europe with a French alcoholic painter she meets in Prague the summer after the Velvet Revolution. They move to Paris and have a child, and Maebh becomes breadwinner by day and breast feeder by night. They try life in Greece, Ireland, and Spain, where she ponders her artistic pretensions, bad marriage, and parenting and how difficult it is, in an atmosphere of western arrogance that is blind to its own contradictions, to make it all work.

 

About the author

Siobhan Jamison is a professor in Toronto. Her poem "Godot" was longlisted for the 2017 CBC poetry prize. Maternity and Other Corsets, a semi-autobiographical portrait of love, abuse, women, and art was inspired by a decade in Prague, Paris, and Dublin first as a wife, then as a single mother.

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