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Quilt / Donna E. Smyth.

by Smyth, Donna E..

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Roseway Publishing, 1994.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Abused women -- Fiction.

Quilting -- Fiction.

9780969840718 (trade pbk.)

131 p. ; 20 cm.

"Quilt was fist published by Women's Educational Press, Toronto, Ontario, in 1982"--T.p. verso.

Afterword by J. Russell Perkin.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Quilt is the first novel of successful short story and play writer, Donna E. Smyth. Set in rural Nova Scotia, it is an intense book about two country women and a young battered wife who comes to live with one of them for shelter, and the relationships of these women with their husbands and families. The title refers to a quilt which the women and their neighbours are working on together for a church charity, and it functions as a symbolic unifying force for the women. When they are socializing and working together over their task, they feel free and happy, no longer defined by their husbands and household chores. The major characters, the women and their husbands, are vividly drawn through each one’s stream of consciousness reflections of their inner thoughts and past lives, presented in their own manner of speaking. They are depressed people, who feel defeated by life and unable to control their own destiny. There is a preoccupation with disease, blood, and death, both in the recollections of the characters and in the author’s imagery and descriptions, foreshadowing the final futile tragedy of the book."--CBRA online.

Canadian fiction.

Historical fiction.

Literary fiction.

Perkin, J. R. C. (James Russell Conway).

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