The Lion in the Room Next Door - Hardcover

Simonds, Merilyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771080662 ISBN 13: 9780771080661

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1999

Synopsis

This spellbinding collection of eleven stories chronicles the remarkable journey of one woman’s life from childhood to adulthood, through exotic landscapes, and through the darker, more mysterious terrain of the human heart. The title story inhabits a child’s private realm within the maze of corridors in a Brazilian hotel. Later, a toy gun from a cowgirl costume becomes the symbol of something all too real. In a cramped apartment in Sweden, a young wife finds herself caught in the tensions between her husband and his father. A wife slips the bonds of marriage on a beach in Mexico. In a desert canyon on the island of Kauai, a woman at middle age discovers just how much she is willing to risk. And, in the haunting final story, the death of a parent unlocks the grief of a child’s tragic death years before. Dazzling, evocative, daring, The Lion in the Room Next Door is an exquisitely crafted work of the imagination.

About this title

About the Author

Merilyn Simonds was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and spent her childhood in Brazil. Her books include The Holding (2004), the internationally acclaimed short story collection The Lion in the Room Next Door (1999), and The Convict Lover (non-fiction, 1996), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and the Arthur Ellis Award, and won the TORGI Award. The Convict Lover premiered as a stage play at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille in 1998.

Simonds has worked as a freelance writer and a magazine editor, has taught courses in literary non-fiction, and has been a guest lecturer at colleges and universities in the U. S. and Canada. She has won several national awards for her magazine writing.

She lives outside Kingston, Ontario, with her husband, writer and translator Wayne Grady.


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nding collection of eleven stories chronicles the remarkable journey of one woman’s life from childhood to adulthood, through exotic landscapes, and through the darker, more mysterious terrain of the human heart. The title story inhabits a child’s private realm within the maze of corridors in a Brazilian hotel. Later, a toy gun from a cowgirl costume becomes the symbol of something all too real. In a cramped apartment in Sweden, a young wife finds herself caught in the tensions between her husband and his father. A wife slips the bonds of marriage on a beach in Mexico. In a desert canyon on the island of Kauai, a woman at middle age discovers just how much she is willing to risk. And, in the haunting final story, the death of a parent unlocks the grief of a child’s tragic death years before. Dazzling, evocative, daring, <i>The Lion in the Room Next Door</i> is an exquisitely crafted work of the imagination.

Edition details

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771080662
• ISBN 13: 9780771080661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272