[audiobook] In-laws; Outlaws; and Granny Flats: Your Guide to turning One House into Two Homes by From Taunton Press at Arts-Photography

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New from the Winner of the Writers Trust of Canada Marian Engel Awardand the Governor Generals Award for English FictionOnce touted as compendiums of human knowledge; the encyclopedias and handbooks of bygone eras now read quaintly; if not comically—yet within their musty pages are often found phrases of uncanny evocative power. Scrupulously stitching such fragments together; in a sequel to the Governor Generalrsquo;s Award-winning Forms of Devotion; By The Book is a collection of verbal and visual collages whose alchemies transform long-dead texts into tales of enduring vitality. With her visually witty full-colour artwork and stories like “What Is A Hat? Where Is Constantinople? Who Was Sir Walter Raleigh? And Many Other Common Questions; Some With Answers; Some Without;rdquo; and “Consumptives Should Not Kiss Other People: A Handy Guide to the Care and Maintenance of Your Familyrsquo;s Good Health;rdquo; Schoemperlenrsquo;s irreverent and ironic brand of nostalgia combines vintage kitsch with comic; creepy; unexpectedly moving yarns.Praise for By The Book“Diane Schoemperlens By The Book is a bravura performance. Fragments; collage; assemblage; found poetry - none of the conventional words cover it for they miss the fantastic wit; the energy of humour; the divine ability to find comedic ore in the print detritus of our culture. She doesnt rescue texts; with her wicked sense of irony; she actually puts thought where there was none. She infects the banal with the virus of her own brain and makes it into art. Then she makes a picture of it—oh; dwell upon the details; there are whole novels lurking in the details.rdquo;—Douglas GloverPraise for Diane Schoemperlen"Schoemperlens inventive language and narrative structures encourage readers to be free from the prison of everyday thinking."—New York Times Book Review"Lovely; clever [and] imaginative."—Wall Street Journal“Cuttingly witty ... Schoemperlen could almost form a school of piquant and inventive fiction with Julie Hecht; Janet Kauffman; and Lydia Davis.rdquo;—Booklist"There is no mistaking a Schoemperlen story—devoted to form; faithful to the mysteries of the everyday."—The Globe Mail