New from the Winner of the Writers Trust of Canada Marian Engel Awardand the Governor Generals Award for English FictionOnce touted as compendiums of human knowledge, the encyclopedias and handbooks of bygone eras now read quaintly, if not comically&#151yet within their musty pages are often found phrases of uncanny evocative power. Scrupulously stitching such fragments together, in a sequel to the Governor Generals Awardwinning Forms of Devotion, By The Book is a collection of verbal and visual collages whose alchemies transform longdead texts into tales of enduring vitality. With her visually witty fullcolour artwork and stories like &#147What Is A Hat? Where Is Constantinople? Who Was Sir Walter Raleigh? And Many Other Common Questions, Some With Answers, Some Without," and &#147Consumptives Should Not Kiss Other People A Handy Guide to the Care and Maintenance of Your Familys Good Health, Schoemperlens irreverent and ironic brand of nostalgia combines vintage kitsch with comic, creepy, unexpectedly moving yarns.Praise for By The Book&#147Diane Schoemperlens By The Book is a bravura performance. Fragments, collage, assemblage, found poetry none of the conventional words cover it for they miss the fantastic wit, the energy of humour, the divine ability to find comedic ore in the print detritus of our culture. She doesnt rescue texts with her wicked sense of irony, she actually puts thought where there was none. She infects the banal with the virus of her own brain and...

Binding: Hardcover;218 pages; Publisher: Biblioasis; Classification: FA; Weight: 698 g; Dimensions: 162 x 211 x 16

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