The one that got away
Subtitle: short stories
By: Zoë Wicomb.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781595584571
Subjects: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Fiction; Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Set mostly in Cape Town and Glasgow.... the twelve stories in this collection... explore a spectrum of human relationships: marriage, friendship, family ties, neighbours, and relations between those who serve and are served... characters include the adolescent girl Elsie, navigating between her new life in the city of Glasgow and her family's vexed history in South Africa, and Dot and Julie, a pair of friends once united by the colour of their skin and now discovering how time and marriage have divided their paths."--Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Boy in a jute-sack hood; title: Disgrace; title: The one that got away; title: Mrs Pringle's bed; title: There's the bird that never flew; title: Neighbours; title: Friends and goffels; title: Trompe l'oeil; title: Nothing like the wind; title: N2; title: In the Botanic Gardens; title: Another story.