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A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue.Shirley and Coenraad's affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organization known only as the Agency. Their rendezvous take place in Tangier, in Hong Kong, in Rome and are arranged by an intricate code based on notes slipped into issues of National Geographic. He recognizes her by her costume: a respectable black dress and string of pearls; his appearance is changeable. But something has happened, the code has been discovered, and Coenraad leads Shirley (who prefers to be known as "Lola Montez") to the last place she wants to go: her home city, the city of her impoverished immigrant childhood.
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(1915-2010) was a Canadian writer. The author of two novels and a short story collection, her novel won the Toronto Book Award in 1981, and her short story collection was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1989. Born in Poland in 1915, she emigrated to Canada at age 10 with her mother, and married composer John Weinzweig on July 12, 1940. She published her first short story, "Surprise!", in in 1967, and her debut novel was published in 1973. She came to be regarded as one of Canada's first important feminist writers. Her style was marked by experimental forms with some aspects of metafiction; in her short story "Journey to Porquis", a writer on a train trip realizes that all of his fellow passengers are characters in his novel. Weinzweig also wrote and produced a one-act play, , and several of her short stories in were adapted for stage and CBC Radio broadcast by playwright Dave Carley. Weinzweig died in 2010, aged 96. (from Wikipedia)
