- •Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
- •One The bridge
- •The Toronto Star, May 26, 1945
- •Two The hard-boiled egg
- •The Globe and Mail, June 4, 1947
- •The park bench
- •The Toronto Star, August 25, 1975
- •The carpets
- •The Globe and Mail, February 19, 1998
- •The lipstick heart
- •Three The presentation
- •The silver box
- •The Button Factory
- •The trousseau
- •The gramophone
- •Bread day
- •Black ribbons
- •Four The cafe
- •The Port Ticonderoga Herald and Banner, March 16, 1933
- •The chenille spread
- •The Mail and Empire, December 5, 1934
- •The messenger
- •The Mail and Empire, December 15, 1934
- •Horses of the night
- •Mayfair, May 1935
- •The bronze bell
- •Five The fur coat
- •The Weary Soldier
- •Miss Violence
- •The button factory picnic
- •Loaf givers
- •The cold cellar
- •The Imperial Room
- •The Arcadian Court
- •The tango
- •Six The houndstooth suit
- •Red brocade
- •The Toronto Star, August 28, 1935
- •Street walk
- •The janitor
- •Mayfair, February 1936
- •Alien on Ice
- •Seven The steamer trunk
- •The Fire Pit
- •Postcards from Europe
- •The eggshell hat
- •Eight Carnivore stories
- •Mayfair, July 1936
- •Peach Women of Aa'a
- •The Mail and Empire, September 19, 1936
- •The Top Hat Grill
- •Nine The laundry
- •The ashtray
- •The man with his head on fire
- •The Water Nixie
- •The chestnut tree
- •Ten Lizard Men of Xenor
- •Mayfair, May 1937
- •The tower
- •The Globe and Mail, May 26, 1937
- •Union Station
- •Eleven The cubicle
- •Beautiful view
- •Brightly shone the moon
- •Betty's Luncheonette
- •The message
- •Twelve The Globe and Mail, October 7, 1938
- •Mayfair, June 1939
- •The Be rage Room
- •Yellow curtains
- •The telegram
- •The destruction of Sakiel-Norn
- •Thirteen
- •Home fires
- •Diana Sweets
- •Fourteen The golden lock
- •Victory comes and goes
- •The heap of rubble
- •Fifteen Epilogue: The other hand
- •The Port Ticonderoga Herald and Banner, May 29, 1999
- •The threshold
- •Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
I would like to express my gratitude to the following: my invaluable assistant, Sarah Cooper; my other researchers, A. S. Hall and Sarah Webster; Professor Tim Stanley; Sharon Maxwell, archivist, Cunard Line Ltd., St. James Library, London; Dorothy Duncan, executive director, Ontario Historical Society; Hudson's Bay/Simpsons Archives, Winnipeg; Fiona Lucas, Spadina House, Heritage Toronto; Fred Kerner; Terrance Cox; Katherine Ashenburg; Jonathan F. Vance; Mary Sims; Joan Gale; Don Hutchison; Ron Bernstein; Lorna Toolis and her staff at the Toronto Public Library's Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, and to Janet Inksetter of Annex Books. Also to early readers Eleanor Cook, Ramsay Cook, Xandra Bingley, Jess A. Gibson, and Rosalie Abella. Also to my agents, Phoebe Larmore, Vivienne Schuster, and Diana Mackay; and to my editors, Ellen Seligman, Heather Sangster, Nan A. Talese, and Liz Calder. Also to Arthur Gelgoot, Michael Bradley, Bob Clark, Gene Goldberg, and Rose Tornato. And to Graeme Gibson and my family, as always.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint already published material: Epigraphs: Ryszard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs: © 1982, Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczowska-Brand. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Carthaginian urn inscription attributed to Zashtar, a minor noble-woman (c.210-185 B. C. E.), is cited by Dr. Emil F. Swardsward in "Carthaginian Shard Epitaphs,"Cryptic: The Journal of Ancient Inscriptions, vol. VII, no.9, 1963.
Sheila Watson: from Deep Hollow Creek © 1992, Sheila Watson. Reprinted with permission from Mc Clelland Stewart Inc.
The vernacular renditions of songs are based on: "The Smoke Goes Up the Chimney Just the Same." Traditional.
"Smokey Moon." Lyric by G. Damorda. Music by Crad Shelley. Copyright © 1934 Sticks Inc./Skylark Music. Copyright renewed 1968 by Chaggas Music Corporation on behalf of author and composer. Used by permission.
"Stormy Weather. " Lyric by Ted Koehler. Music by Harold Arlen. Copyright © 1933 Mills Music Inc. / S. A. Music Co. /Ted Koehler Music/EMI Mills Music Inc. /Redwood Music. Copyright renewed 1961 by Arko Music Corp. U. S. rights for the extended term in the United States administered by Fred Ahlert Music Corporation on behalf of Ted Koehler Music. U. S. rights administered by S. A. Music on behalf of Harold Arlen Music. Rights outside the U. S. administered by EMI Mills Music Inc. All rights relating to the interest of Ted Koehler in Canada and the reversionary territories are controlled by Bienstock Publishing Company on behalf of Redwood Music. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
The account of the Queen Mary's maiden voyage is excerpted from: "In Search of an Adjective" by J. Herbert Hodgins. Mayfair, July 1936. (Maclean Hunter, Montreal). Exact ownership of copyright unknown. Reprinted by permission of Rogers Media and Southam Inc.
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