Book Description
We've seen the pictures and heard their names. But the staggering number of terror-attack victims of September 11, 2001, overwhelms the individual stories of the men and women who left home that morning never to return. And with this deeply moving tribute, Diane Schoemperlen both bestows individuality to each and connects us all.
A tapestry of every name and a narrative of events crafted with a novelist's keen observational eye, the story of this day of loss becomes a celebration of life. Accompanying the names of the victims is an imaginative framework of fragments based on facts—relationships, hobbies, hopes for the future, the textures and basic endeavours of human life. Written in spellbinding prose, Names of the Dead is at once a work of literary art and a haunting elegy that captures the magnitude of an unforgettable event.
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About the Author
Diane Schoemperlen is the author of
Our Lady of the Lost and Found;
In the Language of Love; and five short story collections, including
Forms of Devotion, which won the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1998; and
The Man of My Dreams, which was nominated for a Governor General's Award and a Trillium Award.
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