Other Women - Softcover

Evelyn Lau

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749395273 ISBN 13: 9780749395278

Publisher: Vintage, 1995

Synopsis

A portrait of a young woman devastated by the power of first love, by the author of "`Fresh Girls' and Other Stories". Fiona is a young artist who falls for an older married man. Although erotically charged, the affair is never consummated, yet Fiona remains obsessed long after he has left her.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Fiona, an accomplished young artist, falls in love with Raymond. An older married man.  Their haunted relationship evolves in a floating melange of restaurants and hotel rooms against the looming backdrop of their separate, anonymous cities.  Although erotically charged, the affair is never consummated - yet the love Fiona feels intensifies into an obsession that continues to possess her long after Raymond leaves her.  Along the way, at receptions and restaurant tables, at dinner parties and on trips, Fiona meets other men and women in relationships that are coming together or falling apart-friendships, marriages, love affairs - each offering their own version of love's nature.  And, throughout, Raymond's wife Helen holds a central place.  For Fiona, Helen herself is "the other woman" - mysterious, enviable and untouchable.

About the Author

Evelyn Lau's first book, Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, was published in 1989 when she was eighteen. It became a Canadian bestseller and was recently made into a CBC-TV movie. Lau is also the author of the acclaimed book of short stories Fresh Girls and Other Stories, as well as three poetry collections. In 1992 she became the youngest poet ever to be nominated for the Governor General's Award. Evelyn Lau lives and works in Vancouver.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0749395273
• ISBN 13: 9780749395278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160