A wonderful hybrid of post-modern genre-bending and conventional narrative - an exploration of a state of mind rather than a description of events. This work deals with subjects as varied as memory; rewriting notions of history; erotic latitude; the blurred border between sleep, dream and reality; isolation; loss; pleasure and change.

Praise for Sub-Rosa & Other Fiction:

"Most contemporary English-language works of lesbian fiction trace their lineage either to Radclyffe Hall's straightforward realism or to Djuna Barnes's opaque modernism; following the latter, and imprinted by French post-structuralist feminism, Bennett's text extends the lesbian experimental tradition. ... The women characters who enthrall Bennett's narrators both inspire the text and grace it. But they are not captured in fixed representations. If anything, they are invoked with intimate rhapsodies, to whose lyrical intensity readers are fortunate to be privy." (Jodi Lundgren, Plenitude)

Catherine Bennett is a Vancouver writer, whose work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Grain, subTerrain, Tessera, and Mirage/Period(ical). She won first prize in the 1991 Short Grain Contest (Postcard Story Category). For many years, she was a member of the Kootenay School of Writing Collective. She holds a BA in creative writing and an MA in English literature. Currently, she makes her living as a freelance editor.

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