Pale shadows
"Dickinson after her death: a novel of the women who brought Emily Dickinson's poems out of the shadows. Grieving the loss of her sister and alone in a big house, Lavinia goes through Emily's things and wonders what to do with her sister's poems. She enlists the help of Susan, Emily's best friend an...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Toronto :
Coach House Books,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First English-language edition. |
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| Summary: | "Dickinson after her death: a novel of the women who brought Emily Dickinson's poems out of the shadows. Grieving the loss of her sister and alone in a big house, Lavinia goes through Emily's things and wonders what to do with her sister's poems. She enlists the help of Susan, Emily's best friend and brother Austin's wife, who rouses herself from a deep depression to put the poems into some order to approach a publisher. Lavinia also brings Austin's mistress, Mabel, into the project for her worldliness and connections. In the wings, there is Millicent, Mabel's daughter, a little girl like Emily in spirit, wise and strong-willed, and fascinated by things big and small in the world around her. Delicate like lacework with dark threads running through it, 'Pale shadows' picks up the story of Emily Dickinson where 'Paper houses' left off, to explore the place of women in history, their creativity, and the enduring power of Dickinson's poetry"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Les ombres blanches. Sequel to: Paper houses. |
| Physical Description: | 190 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781552454688 1552454681 |
| Author Notes: | Rhonda Mullins is a Montreal-based translator who has translated many books from French into English, including Jocelyne Saucier's And Miles To Go Before I Sleep, Grégoire Courtois' The Laws of the Skies, Dominique Fortier's Paper Houses , and Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's Suzanne . She is a seven-time finalist for the Governor General's LiteraryAward for Translation, winning the award in 2015 for her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Twenty-One Cardinals . Novels she has translated were contenders for CBC Canada Reads in 2015 and 2019 and one was a finalist for the 2018 Best Translated Book Award. Mullins was the inaugural literary translator in residence at Concordia University in 2018. She is a mentor to emerging translators in the Banff International Literary Translation Program. |
