A Reluctant Mother - Dore, Dierdre Simon
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Honest, sometimes humorous and often tragic, FRIDA's narrative tells a modern tale of a conflagration of deceit, adultery, regret and love. Frida, childless by choice, is an artist with a heartbreaking childhood history. When she agrees to allow her husband's spurious daughter into their lives they are devastatingly changed forever. Frida tells her story while confined to a hospital bed where a very young lawyer relentlessly pushes for a recounting of events. Frida's memory, though often faulty and sporadic, comes back to her in poignant scenes that she is forced to relive, each alarming act…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Honest, sometimes humorous and often tragic, FRIDA's narrative tells a modern tale of a conflagration of deceit, adultery, regret and love. Frida, childless by choice, is an artist with a heartbreaking childhood history. When she agrees to allow her husband's spurious daughter into their lives they are devastatingly changed forever. Frida tells her story while confined to a hospital bed where a very young lawyer relentlessly pushes for a recounting of events. Frida's memory, though often faulty and sporadic, comes back to her in poignant scenes that she is forced to relive, each alarming act leading to yet another even more ill-advised. In FRIDA, Deirdre Simon Dore's evocative writing has created a difficult, blunt and vitally genuine "reluctant mother." A contemporary novel of a woman whose relationships are an exercise in hilarity and tragedy both. Deidre Simon Dore has won The Journey Prize; Western Magazines Gold Award for Fiction; Short Grain Award and was a Best Canadian Stories selection. Praise for Deirdre Simon Dore's Writing: "A wonderful rarity: a lightly told and very funny story that nevertheless bears great weight ... an imaginative and original voice the reader will return to with pleasure."--Journey Prize jury "Weaves a near-cinematic spell of brewing suspense... as these unforgettable characters collide."--Malahat Review Fiction.
Autorenporträt
Deirdre Dore is a Canadian writer. Her short fiction has won, among other awards, The Journey Prize and has been published in numerous journals and translated into Italian. Her plays have been produced in Vancouver and Calgary. Originally from New York and a graduate of Boston University, she has an MFA in creative writing from UBC. After homesteading on a remote island in BC, she moved inland where she acquired a woodlot license on which she planted trees and learned to use a chainsaw. She lives near a large lake in the interior of British Columbia with her husband, black lab and assorted livestock. She has two children.