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Thirty Four Ways of Looking at Jane Eyre

by (author) Joan Givner

Publisher
New Star Books
Initial publish date
Oct 1998
Category
General, Short Stories (single author)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921586678
    Publish Date
    Oct 1998
    List Price
    $21.00

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Description

Joan Givner engages the heart and mind in this refreshing and readable collection of short stories and essays. Nineteen pieces demonstrate, with the author's trademark acuity, how biography — and autobiography — finds its way into fiction.

Implicitly feminist, Givner's compassionate yet unflinching eye vividly renders each secret pain and joy of her protagonists' experiences. Life writing, life reading, life itself: all jump out in multidimensional clarity.

About the author

Joan Givner was born in Manchester, England, in 1936. After studying at London University and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, she began teaching at the Unviersity of Regina in 1965; later she edited the Wascana Review. She has published biographies of Katherine Anne Porter (1982) and Mazo de la Roche (1989) and two collections of stories, most recently Scenes from Provincial Life (1991). "Elizabeth," a prize winner in the 1991 CBC Canadian Literary Awards, was published in a Joan Givner Special Issue of Room of One's Own in 1992.

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