Novels Set in Toronto Amnesia (Novel), Bitten (Novel), Brown Girl in the Ring (Novel), Cat's Eye (Novel), From Anna, Fugitive Pieces, He

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 24. Chapters: Amnesia (novel), Bitten (novel), Brown Girl in the Ring (novel), Cat's Eye (novel), From Anna, Fugitive Pieces, Headhunter (novel), In the Skin of a Lion, King Leary, No New Land, Such Is My Beloved, The Blind Assassin, The Boggart, The Cunning Man, The Edible Woman, The Incomparable Atuk, The Moved and the Shaken, The Rebel Angels, The Robber Bride, The Sky Is Falling (Pearson novel), The Wives of Bath, Through Black Spruce, Toronto Trilogy. Excerpt: The Wives of Bath is a novel by Susan Swan, inspired by her own childhood experiences at Havergal College in Toronto, Canada. In late 1963, Mary 'Mouse' Bradford is sent to boarding school by her unsympathetic father and jealous stepmother. There, she meets the rebellious Paulie, and together they embark upon a quest to discover what, fundamentally, separates men from women. In Swan's own words, ..". the teachers and matrons of the boarding school remind of Chaucer's Wife of Bath because they are the only women she has met who live by their own rules. Yet even their power is limited, and Mouse concludes near the end of the novel: We were all Wives of Bath - from the teachers who terrorized us with their bells and gatings to the overfed boarders and snobby day girls..but no matter how hard any of us struggled...Bath Ladies College was only a fiefdom in the kingdom of men. - The Wives of Bath Mouse introduces herself, and mentions her involvement in Paulie's "weird, Napoleonic act of self-assertion," though she doesn't specify exactly what it was that Paulie did, or even who she is. Mouse speaks of her distracted father, Morley, and her critical stepmother, Sal. She also tells the reader of the hump she has in her left shoulder as a result of a childhood bout of polio, which developed into kyphosis. Mouse has named the hump Alice, ...