The Woman Downstairs
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- May 1993
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771310451
- Publish Date
- May 1993
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919626669
- Publish Date
- Jan 1993
- List Price
- $11.95
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Winner of the 1994 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers' Federation)
In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and acquaintances of life, its small coincidences and occurrences, its unexpected meetings. With a passionate distance, Bruck blends the outside observer's cool embrace with a desire to know intensely life’s eccentric smallnesses, to gentle the beautiful out of the mundane. By turns witty and thoughtful, Bruck's writing is always graceful, always a delight.
About the author
Julie Bruck is the author of two previous books, both with Brick: The End of Travel (1999), and The Woman Downstairs (1993). Her recent work has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Walrus, among other publications. A Montreal native, she lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.