Passing Ceremony

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Open - No Protection

Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781487002626

<p><strong>The brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of <i>Basic Black With Pearls</i>.</strong></p><p>In Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.</p><p>Like a piece of music, <i>Passing Ceremony</i> is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges. A satire and a rueful meditation on the ways people hurt one another, Weinzweig gives us a world suspended in time, an uneasy territory of the soul, which we all inhabit.</p><p>This edition features a new introduction by Jim Polk.</p>