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She may seem ordinary enough, pricing silk scarves at Eaton’s or idling in hotel coffee shops, but in fact she is searching for her lover. He is an elusive figure, a man connected with “The Agency,” a powerful technocrat who may or may not have suggested a rendezvous based on a secret code in the \u003cem\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer search takes her to the world of her past as a Jewish immigrant in the Spadina-Dundas area of Toronto. She finds the bakeries and rooming houses of her youth still haunted by survivors of postwar Europe and by her own memories of guilt and loss, while the consolations of art, opera, and pornography offer only echoes of her own illusions and desires. Her strange, wryly funny odyssey ends in a dramatic confrontation scene with her husband and “the other woman,” as she trades in her basic black for another chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e, Weinzweig displays her gift for creating sympathetic characters in a slightly surreal, but always recognizable world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Basic Black with Pearls
In her search for a lover, Shirley sheds her drab existence together with torturous memories of guilt and loss as a Jewish immigrant in Toronto.
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Her novels have been taught and discussed in women’s studies courses across campuses. She was a highly regarded literary figure in the 1960s and 1970s; her works speak to the experiences of women who lived during that time, and her style and voice was groundbreaking.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e by Helen Weinzweig will be published by the New York Review of Books in Fall 2017.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe A List edition will feature an introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis A List edition coincides with both the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation and the 50th anniversary of House of Anansi Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eYou sit there, father of the bride, you sit there straight and proud. In the middle of a middle row to the right of the aisle. How is it you are not in your rightful place, in the second pew to the left, beside the mother of the bride? It is your son Thomas who sits there in your stead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are being examined: more eyes are on you than on your daughter repeating her vows.\r\nSpeculations. You are taking an awful risk being here. And if you had to bring your little dark wife, poor child, so young, why did you not dress her properly?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd as sensitive observers we should be registering your deeply moving feelings, or, at the very least, some sentimental reflections. You are being stubborn. We cannot read you. Give us something to go on: some memories, a few regrets. Alternatively, cogent theories on marriage gleaned from your vast studies: references to tribal customs would be acceptable. Yet nothing of literary interest comes through. No philosophies? We remember you as quite a philosopher, with a tendency to place mundane events in historical, usually ancient Greek, perspective. Surely, this is the very moment … ah … a passing thought: the groom appears to you as a man without bones, the kind whose flesh is as yielding as a woman’s; and the idea of those two softnesses copulating is disgusting to you. Too strong? Offensive, merely, then. That will have to do for now. Perhaps, later, at the reception, after a few drinks, we’ll get back to you.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A remarkable piece of writing.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Polished, forceful, and poetic.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_2":"Handled with skill.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_3":"A brilliant first work of fiction.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_4":"[Passing Ceremony] crackles with the energy of chance. Its form seems built from mysterious, unconscious forces . . . As a whole, the powerful novel resembles a shattered reflection in a mirror, each page a different-sized shard of a splintered psyche . . . There’s a reason people are returning to [Helen Weinzweig’s] work now. Her art was committed to unshackling us from the illusion of any form of certainty — to keeping the unknown, unknown.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-08-26","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Passing Ceremony
A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.
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Kamouraska
A classic of Canadian literature by the great Québécoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec.
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Tamara
Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.
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Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson
A collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more.
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The Honeyman Festival
A night in the life of a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between her family and the need for a life in which impulse can once again find play.
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The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories
The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring Canadian classic.
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Mermaids and Ikons
Beloved poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen’s first work of nonfiction in a handsome A List edition.
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No Pain Like This Body
The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community.
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Civil Elegies
A List edition of Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies, with an introduction by Nick Mount.
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Ticknor
George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his own failure with the success of his boyhood friend, the famous American historian William Prescott.
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Museum of Bone and Water
A provocative investigation of the human body — our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire.
