Red Plaid Shirt: Stories

by Schoemperlen, Diane

• ISBN13: 9780142003206
• ISBN10: 0142003204
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

Award-winning author Diane Schoemperlen's twenty-one exceptional stories showcase all the magic, charm, and intelligence of her novel Our Lady of the Lost and Found. Written over the past twenty years, and drawing upon a wide range of themes, subjects, and styles, these thoughtful selections are infused with Schoemperlen's freshness of observation and unique gift for narrative. "Losing Ground" is a remarkable coming-of-age story in which the harsh realities of death and discrimination start to impinge on a young girl's life. In "The Man of My Dreams," the truths of a disintegrating relationship counterpose and merge with the dream world of the narrator. And in the title story, items of a woman's clothing carry the memories of past years, illuminating the truths of life-its sorrows, its mysteries, and its consolations.

Author Biography

Diane Schoemperlen is the author of Our Lady of the Lost and Found; In the Language of Love; and five short story collections, including Forms of Devotion, which won the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1998; and The Man of My Dreams, which was nominated for a Governor General's Award and a Trillium Award.

Table of Contents

Losing Ground	p. 1
This Town	p. 22
Frogs	p. 30
Hockey Night in Canada	p. 44
Clues	p. 58
Tickets to Spain	p. 71
A Simple Story	p. 91
The Man of My Dreams	p. 112
In a Dark Season	p. 138
Red Plaid Shirt	p. 145
Stranger Than Fiction	p. 161
Railroading or: Twelve Small Stories with the Word Train in the Title	p. 180
The Look of the Lightning, The Sound of the Birds	p. 201
Mastering Effective English (A Linguistic Fable)	p. 218
Nothing Happens	p. 233
A Change is as Good as a Rest	p. 241
The Antonyms of Fiction	p. 252
Weights and Measures	p. 258
Forms of Devotion	p. 269
How Deep is the River?	p. 279
Five Small Rooms (A Murder Mystery)	p. 294
Publishing History and Notes	p. 305
Permissions	p. 309
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