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Winner of the Arthur Ellis Prize for Best Offense Novel and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Prize: Carol Shields's award-winning fourth novel is a literary detective tale exploring the astonishing afterlife of your murdered poet. Who is Mary Swann? In such a novel of your writer's revenge, an uneducated farmer's wife delivers a paper bag filled up with scraps of her poems to the publisher of a small press. Hours later, she's useless, murdered by her hubby. Fifteen years on, her book of 125 poems - Mary Swann's exclusive case to fame - is learned by an American academics. And a literary odyssey starts. Four narrators - Sarah Maloney, a feminist writer; Frederic Cruzzi, an editor; Morton Jimroy, a biographer; and Rose Hindmarch, Mary's only good friend - all have a stake in the deceased poet's work. Their chorus of voices starts a fascinating windows on what constitutes genius. As the four descend into a quagmire of ego, jealousy, and backstabbing, Mary Swann comes back to life - in the brains and hearts of those who love and hate her most. Filled with mischief, Swann is a novel about life, fatality, and the ideas that go on after us.

Category: Satire