In this highly entertaining collection, Arnason employs all of his powers as a humorist and as a scholar intimate with North American and Icelandic mythology and culture. Whether set in a chilly Canadian city or an ancient Icelandic village, each story takes on an epic tone and suggests that there is a higher power hard at play, toying with people's destiny for its own amusement. Arnason's serpentine demon lover seduces and tempts women with his own kind of forbidden fruit. His narrator considers the fate of lovers in an overturned canoe. Giants of incredible strength populate a remote and dying Icelandic village. Spanning worlds both mythological and real, the stories are recounted from an all-knowing - but not always all revealing - perspective.
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- Morley Walker, The Winnipeg Free Press
"David Arnason is a master storyteller with a classical sensibility."
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"In The Demon Lover, Arnason displays an impeccable ability to craft tales rich with comedy, mythology and contemporary insight."
-Uptown Magazine
"Arnason neatly balances his brooding excursions by elsewhere chronicling that which endures (love, sex, faith, death) and endears readers devoted to this seasoned author's enchanting tales and refreshingly silly sketches."
- The Globe and Mail
"There is much to surprise and delight the reader in The Demon Lover."
- Canadian Literature
"Arnason is truly a wordsmith; the oral tradition of his Icelandic heritage is woven into the fabric of this collection."
- The Winnipeg Free Press
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- SKU: 9780888012784
- Price: $16.95
David Arnason
David Arnason is an acclaimed novelist, writer of short fiction, and editor. A finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour (King Jerry) and a winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award (The Imagined City), David has taught at the University of Manitoba since 1972. He has served as both the acting head of the Department of Icelandic Studies and head of the Department of English. Currently, he lives and writes in Gimli, MB.