In the Language of LoveIn this astonishingly inventive novel, Diane Schoemperlen uses the 100 stimulus words from the Standard Word Association Test as a narrative framework for exploring her heroine's growing understanding of the meaning of love. A tour de force of wit and wordplay, In the Language of Love is a wise and compassionate collage of one woman's coming of emotional age. |
Contents
Table | |
Dark | |
Music | |
Sickness | |
5 | |
Deep | |
Soft | |
Eating | |
Hand | |
Short | |
Fruit | |
Butterfly | |
Smooth | |
Command | |
Chair | |
Sweet | |
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