Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English Review

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Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English ReviewI am the Canadian writer the previous reviewer has vilified for writing too autobiographically in Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, my sixth book. This reviewer must have searched for me on amazon.com using a misspelling of my first name (in my case "Elisabeth" is spelled with an "s") and therefore couldn't access the site where most of my books appear and so chose to review me on the site of Rosemary Sullivan's Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English by reviewing just me, all by myself alone.
But besides my own story ("There Goes the Groom") which I hope is an innovative account of emotional chaos marked by the irrational comedy of real life, there are many other terrific stories in this collection: Elizabeth Hay's intensely dynamic "Friends," a story about the ups and downs in the fierce relationship between two women friends; Dionne Brand's vivid and musical story about her grandmother; Sharon Butala's relentless although at times almost farcical "Fever;" Alice Munro's "The Albanian Virgin," a panoramic narrative that moves from the mythic to the urban as it also moves across time and continents; Linda Svendsen's eerie and painfully prescient "White Shoulders," as well as fine stories by many other Canadian women writers.
As for Betty Burke's speculations on how much of my own work is autobiographical, it's a question I'm often asked in relation to all of my books, but most often in relation to my two novels (Excessive Joy Injures the Heart and All Times Have Been Modern.) And I suppose it's a very flattering question, really, because when people ask a writer if his or her characters are real, they are frequently really saying how much they long for the characters to be living lives that could conceivably connect with their own.
In fact there are many collisions between the invented and the real in both my novels. I often found these collisions to be the most electric of all to work with while I was writing both books, so much so that I would often work on my novels-in-progress all night long, sleep for a few hours in the morning, then hurry back to begin writing again right after I got up around noon. It was an insane way to live (which will not surprise Ms. Burke), but it was an incredibly euphoric way to live in so many ways too.Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English Overview

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