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Stone Woman is a saga of Blossom's unconventional family of five women, whose lives are bound by a Vietnam-War draft dodger David, immersed in the Yorkville subculture of the hippie daze of Toronto. During the 1967 Art Symposium, a giant block of marble intended for a sculpture disappears from High Park, and the mystery of the theft becomes the focus of speculation in the Toronto arts community. The novel draws the reader into a web of liaisons?into David?s love affair with Blossom?s mother Liza, his covert dealings with her friend Anna, as well as the mysterious Helena. The intrigue culminates in the convergence of their loves and tragedies, and quests for social and cultural change inherent in the tumultuous milieu of the period. The story is brought to the present through the lives of the women?s daughters who discover that their family secrets have been sculpted literally into an art form that imparts a sense of homecoming and alludes to a more hopeful future.
Stone Woman is a saga of Blossom's unconventional family of five women, whose lives are bound by a Vietnam-War draft dodger David, immersed in the Yorkville subculture of the hippie daze of Toronto. During the 1967 Art Symposium, a giant block of marble intended for a sculpture disappears from Hi...
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Bianca Lakoseljac is the author of a novel, Summer of the Dancing Bear, a collection of stories, Bridge in the Rain, (Guernica Editions, 2012, 2010), and a book of poetry, Memoirs of a Praying Mantis, 2009. She is the recipient of the Matthew Ahern Award in literature and has taught at Humber College and Ryerson University. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Canadian Woman Studies; and 50+ Poems for Gordon Lightfoot. Stone Woman, a family saga of five women whose lives are bound by a Vietnam War draft dodger (Guernica Editions, 2016), set in Toronto, is her second novel.
Bianca Lakoseljac is the author of a novel, Summer of the Dancing Bear, a collection of stories, Bridge in the Rain, (Guernica Editions, 2012, 2010), and a book of poetry, Memoirs of a Praying Mantis, 2009. She is the recipient of the Matthew Ahern Award in literature and has taught at Humber Col...
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