I Was Expecting Someone Taller

Dundurn

ISBN 10: 0888783116 / ISBN 13: 9780888783110

Published by Dundurn, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: I Was Expecting Someone Taller
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0888783116
• ISBN 13: 9780888783110
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

I Was Expecting Someone Taller is actually a collection of people: working people, old people, street people, famous people–from Josephine Baker to Baryshinikov, a woman "lunching out" with Jesus to a barfly. These poetic portraits are truthful, sometimes tinged with black humour, other times political. Sue Nevill’s people break through the flat, artificial surfaces of typical portraits and give us colourful, three-dimensional views of their unexpected natures.

About the Author

Sue Nevill is the author of I Was Expecting Someone Taller, and co-author of Quintet: Themes & Variations. Her poetry has been widely published in such Canadian literary periodicals as The Antigonish Review, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly. She is a longtime resident of Vancouver, BC.