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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Lau, Evelyn
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Evelyn Lau crashed into the spotlight at
the age of eighteen with the publication in 1989 of her first
book,Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid,
an autobiographical work that illuminated the world of teenage
prostitution and drug abuse in Vancouver. This was made into
the CBC-TV film The Diary of Evelyn Lau.
Lau's poetry, and prose have appeared in many literary journals.
A native of Vancouver, Lau continues to make that city her
home. |
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Autobiography
Inside Out: Reflections on a Life So Far
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2001.
Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2002.
9th floor PS8573 .A7815 Z53 2002
Publisher's Synopsis (Doubleday)
Moving seamlessly through past and present, Lau describes
how her complex, painful relationship with her parents has
shaped her adult desires, thwarting her efforts to connect
with both men and women. She recalls her dangerous battle
with bulimia and examines her continued struggle against crippling
depression. ...
Above all, Lau considers her life as a writer, .... She reveals
the supreme importance she has come to place on her writing
and explains her controversial willingness to breach the boundaries
between public and private in the name of art. |
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Autobiography
Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid
Toronto: Harper & Collins, 1989.
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Publisher's Synopsis
Runaway ... is based on the journal
Evelyn wrote during her two years on the street. In her diary
she explores the physical and emotional struggles of a young
girl coping in a world she has never known - a world of drugs,
prostitution, mental anguish and attempted suicide. |
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Poetry
In the House of Slaves
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1994.
Toronto: Gutter Press, 1999.
9th floor PS8573 .A7815 I5 1999
Publisher's Synopsis (from Gutter Press website)
Packed with vivid and visceral images, pushing the power
of language, Evelyn Lau acts as our guide into a bleak world
of sex and power, pain and pleasure. Bold and audacious, Lau
continues to explore the terrain of her previous collection,
Oedipal Dreams, but dares to go
further, into the world of bondage and torture. Lau presents
terrifying yet romantic acts of love with brutal honesty. |
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Poetry
Living Under Plastic
Fernie, B.C.: Oolichan Books, 2010.
9th floor PS8573 .A7815 L59 2010
Publisher's Synopsis
Living Under Plastic represents a major departure from the author’s previous
poetry books. Instead of the obsessive focus on relationships and
emotional damage that has characterized much of her earlier work, this
book opens up to explore new subjects: family history, illness, death and
dying, consumerism, and the natural world. In a tone that is often elegiac,
without ever being maudlin, these poems are steeped in immortality and
loss. Haunted by the pull of the past, there is strength of character and a
sense of affirmation in all of these poems. While grounded in travel and
in place, the tone is surprisingly meditative and contemplative. |
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Poetry
Treble
Vancouver, B.C.: Polestar Book Publishers, 2005.
9th floor PS8573 .A7815 T74 2005
Publisher's Synopsis (from Raincoast Books website)
Treble is everything we expect of Lau: it is precise, elegant, honest and powerful. It is also Lau’s most mature work of poetry by far, exploring relationships between men and women with depth, empathy and a sensitive precision that is breathtaking and new. |
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Poetry
You Are Not Who You Claim
Victoria, B.C.: Porcépic Books, 1990.
9th floor PS8573 .A7815 Y69 1990
Publisher's Synopsis
... Strong, intimate, disturbing and finally poignant, Evelyn Lau's poems are really about people, trapped and hurting behind their many masks of conformity.
Awards and Honours
1990 Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award (Winner) |
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Fiction (Short stories)
Choose Me: Stories
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1999.
[Toronto]: Vintage Canada, 2000.
9th floor PS8573 .A7815 C46 2000
Publisher's Synopsis (Vintage Canada)
In this critically acclaimed, bestselling collection, Evelyn Lau delves into the complexities of human relationships, exploring the ambiguous motives that propel her characters into emotional and sexual entanglements. With prose remarkable for its resonance, its beauty, and its candour, Lau tells tales of women who long to be chosen by the men they can't have--men whose allure fades the more available they become. |
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Fiction (Short stories)
Fresh Girls & Other Stories
Toronto: HarperCollins, 1993.
9th floor PS8573 .A7815 F74 1993
Publisher's Synopsis
Fresh Girls & Other Stories
takes us to the dark side of Eros - where pleasure becomes
pain and pain becomes addictive. In each of these beautiful
but disturbing pieces, Evelyn Lau tells the stories of young
women searching for a place where sex, obsession and love
can meet. |
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Fiction
Other Women
Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1995.
Toronto: Vintage, 1996.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
9th floor PS8573 .A7815 O75 1996 |
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Anthology
Desire in Seven Voices
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Lau, Evelyn. "Father Figures." In Desire in Seven Voices , edited by Lorna Crozier. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1999, 43-61. |
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Selected Criticism and Interpretation
Fu, Bennett Yu-Hsiang. "Differing Bodies, Defying Subjects, Deferring Texts: Gender, Sexuality, and Transgression in Chinese Canadian Women's Writing." Ph.D. diss., Université de Montréal, 2004.
Available from Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Huot, Nikolas. "Evelyn Lau." In Asian American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, ed. Guiyou Huang, [195]-200. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
9th floor PS153 .A84 A826 2002
Morris, Robyn. "Consumption, Commodification and Choice in Writing by Lillian Ng and Evelyn Lau." In Canadian Studies Today: Responses from the Asia-Pacific, ed. by Stewart Gill, R.K. Dhawan, [138]-151. Delhi: Prestige, 2009.
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