Vintage, Toronto, 2001, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-676-97399-X.  Trade soft cover, 248 pages including Acknowledgments and About the Author.  Unread remaindered copy with a touch of cover wear.  ‘The interlocking worlds of the erotic and the sacred are explored in this novella and nine stories.  These range from present-day Toronto and Vancouver to the nineteenth-century high Arctic, from the Greek Islands to Kathmandu, from a tunnel under Vimy Ridge where a Canadian sentry hears his enemy singing through the wall, to a tourist town in the Rockies where a painter and her dying husband make love for the last time.’ (from rear wrap)