Swann

Carol Shields

Swann
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Country
United States
Published
17 December 2013
Pages
444
ISBN
9781480459847

Swann

Carol Shields

Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award Winner: A funny, poignant, surprising (Margaret Atwood) literary detective story centering around a murdered poet.

Who is Mary Swann?

In this novel of a writer’s revenge, an uneducated farmer’s wife delivers a paper bag filled with scraps of her poems to the publisher of a small press. Hours later, she’s dead, murdered by her husband. Fifteen years on, her book of one hundred twenty-five poems–Mary Swann’s sole claim to fame–is discovered by an American academic. And a literary odyssey begins.

Four narrators–Sarah Maloney, a feminist writer; Frederic Cruzzi, an editor; Morton Jimroy, a biographer; and Rose Hindmarch, Mary’s only friend–all have a stake in the deceased poet’s work. Their chorus of voicesopens a fascinating window on what constitutes genius. As the four descend into a quagmire of ego, jealousy, and backstabbing, Mary Swann comes back to life–in the minds and hearts of those who love and hate her most. Full of mischief, Swann is a novel about life, death, and the ideas that live on after us.

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