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Susan Swan


Susan Swan was born in 1945 in Midland, Ontario, and cannot remember a time when she didn’t want to become a writer. As a child she was an avid reader, using books as a way to escape her small-town world. After graduating from McGill with a degree in English literature, Swan worked as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, but she soon found that work too limiting. As she explained in one interview, “I was quite successful in my career as a journalist, but the constant demand of deadlines and the unpredictable nature of the work didn’t allow me enough time...

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What Casanova Told Me
Written by Susan Swan

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36597-2 (0-307-36597-2)

May 21, 2010 | $14.95

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What Casanova Told Me
Written by Susan Swan

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ISBN: 9780307365972
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What Casanova Told Me links two women’s journeys across two centuries, through a long lost journal. On her way to the Mediterranean, Luce Adams doesn’t expect her life to be much affected by her travels, let alone drastically altered. She’s heading to a memorial service for her mother, Kitty, who died...

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What Casanova Told Me
Written by Susan Swan

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97577-2 (0-676-97577-1)

June 21, 2005 | $21.00

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What Casanova Told Me
Written by Susan Swan

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676975772
Our Price: $21.00
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What Casanova Told Me links two women’s journeys across two centuries, through a long lost journal. On her way to the Mediterranean, Luce Adams doesn’t expect her life to be much affected by her travels, let alone drastically altered. She’s heading to a memorial service for her mother, Kitty, who died...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Wives of Bath
Written by Susan Swan

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97454-6 (0-676-97454-6)

July 9, 2001 | $25.00

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The Wives of Bath
Written by Susan Swan

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676974546
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With a new introduction by the author about the process of the novel becoming a film.

Now a film – Lost and Delirious – based on the bestselling novel, directed by Lea Pool and starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Paréand Mischa Barton.

This fall Susan Swan’s gothic tale of sexual longing and repression at...


              
              



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