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THIS IS NOT MY LIFE. THE STORY OF MY PRISON YEARS
How do you fall in love with a murderer? Nobody ever asked me this question, at least not directly. But if they had, this book would be my answer. Diane Schoemperlen
Schoemperlen met Shane in 2006 when she was volunteering at a soup kitchen while trying to get over a broken heart and the writers' block that had followed. He was a fifty-seven-year-old federal inmate sent there on a work release, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. He had been in prison for almost thirty years. What began as camaraderie between two co-workers bloomed into friendship and then romance.
Diane knew almost nothing about prison. There was, as it turned out, a lot to learn. For almost six years she travelled through the prison system with Shane, a journey that was, by turns, fascinating, frustrating, and frighteninga journey that was also not without its moments of great joy, profound tenderness, helpless outrage, and raucous dark humour. Her friend once commented, I can't believe you ever really thought this was going to have a happy ending. But she did. And it didn't.
Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN has published several collections of short fiction and three novels. Her 1990 story collection, The Man of My Dreams, was shortlisted for both the Governor-General's Award and the Trillium. Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures won the 1998 Governor-General's Award for English Fiction. Viking Penguin US published In the Language of Love, Forms of Devotion, Our Lady of the Lost and Found, Red Plaid Shirt, and Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the
Victims of September 11. Her books have been published internationally in the U.K., Germany, Sweden, Spain, France, Korea, and China. In 2007 she received the Marian Engel Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada and in 2012, she was Writer-in-Residence at Queen's University. Her latest book, published in 2014 in both Canada and the U.S. by Biblioasis, is By the Book, a collection of stories drawn from old textbooks from the early 1900s and illustrated with her own full-colour collages.
Diane knew almost nothing about prison. There was, as it turned out, a lot to learn. For almost six years she travelled through the prison system with Shane, a journey that was, by turns, fascinating, frustrating, and frighteninga journey that was also not without its moments of great joy, profound tenderness, helpless outrage, and raucous dark humour. Her friend once commented, I can't believe you ever really thought this was going to have a happy ending. But she did. And it didn't.
Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN has published several collections of short fiction and three novels. Her 1990 story collection, The Man of My Dreams, was shortlisted for both the Governor-General's Award and the Trillium. Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures won the 1998 Governor-General's Award for English Fiction. Viking Penguin US published In the Language of Love, Forms of Devotion, Our Lady of the Lost and Found, Red Plaid Shirt, and Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the
Victims of September 11. Her books have been published internationally in the U.K., Germany, Sweden, Spain, France, Korea, and China. In 2007 she received the Marian Engel Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada and in 2012, she was Writer-in-Residence at Queen's University. Her latest book, published in 2014 in both Canada and the U.S. by Biblioasis, is By the Book, a collection of stories drawn from old textbooks from the early 1900s and illustrated with her own full-colour collages.
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Published 2016-04-01 by Harper Collins Canada |