Full name: Swann: A Novel

Author: Carol Shields Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Award winners Culture: Canada Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679307877 9781480459847 0679307877 1480459844

Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987. Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann's existence '€” her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph '€” gradually vanish as the characters in this engrossing novel become caught up in their own concepts of who Mary Swann was. From the Trade Paperback edition. Similar books: A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush Galveston by Paul Quarrington A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies Spadework by Timothy Findley The Matter with Morris by David Bergen Happenstance by Carol Shields The Box Garden by Carol Shields In the Language of Love by Diane Schoemperlen The Shoe on the Roof by Will Ferguson In a Glass House by Nino Ricci Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson Canada by Richard Ford Stray Bullets by Robert Rotenberg The Main by Trevanian