Pictures is Lois Simmie's second short story collection. A longing for tranquillity and a compassion for human beings - the impatient little girl, the anxious secretary, the desolate alcoholic - suff
Pictures is Lois Simmie's second short story collection. A longing for tranquillity and a compassion for human beings - the impatient little girl, the anxious secretary, the desolate alcoholic - suffuse these stories.
With the same warmth and humour of her immensely popular novel, They Shouldn't Make You Promise That, Lois Simmie shows us Pictures that will make us laugh and make us cry, make us glad to be alive.
Lois Simmie was born in Edam, Saskatchewan in 1932, and grew up in the small towns of Mervin and Livelong. After attending business college, she worked as a clerk typist, ward aide in the Saskatchewan Hospital, waitress ans short order cook, copy writer and editor for a radio station.She raised four children, started a B.A., then saw forty looming and began to write.
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