Hornbooks of Rita K

Poet Rita Kleinhart disappeared from the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt on June 26, l992 at age fifty-five. She has not been seen alive since. All that remains of Rita are mounds of poems: finished, unfinished, and unfinishable.But where has Rita gone? As her _intimate friend_ Raymond sorts through the papers in her abandoned ranch house, the fragments whirl and dissolve into a mystery, a romance, a primer, a fiction.Written with wit and playfulness, The Hornbooks of Rita K is a welcome new work from one of Canada_s leading writers.Home is a door that opens inward only.So how will you get out, stranger? I sayto myself.Perhaps I was only suggesting, she said, smilingmischievously, that words are a lock, not a key.Then how do you explain, I said, not smiling at all, thatevery time I peek in at your keyhole, I get a shiner?[Hornbook #40]Kroetsch, Robert is the author of 'Hornbooks of Rita K' with ISBN 9780888643728 and ISBN 0888643721.