Lola by Night

by Norman Ravvin

Abandoning her career as a writer of potboiler romances in Barcelona, Lola Benveniste reacts to her father's sudden death by travelling to Vancouver, the city where he spent a secret year in the 1950s. There she discovers her father's entanglement with Herman Rossman, a poet of the old downtown, whom she follows to the East Village in New York. Lola by Night is rich in atmosphere, ironic comedy, and shaggy-dog mystery.

169 pages, Paperback

First published February 17, 2004

About the author

Norman Ravvin is a writer of fiction, criticism and journalism. His books include Hidden Canada, Cafe des Westens, Sex, Skyscrapers, and Yiddish, and A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory. He has also edited the short story collection Great Stories of the Sea, His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Canadian magazines as well as on the CBC. He has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Toronto and the University of New Brunswick. Presently, he is the chair of Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.