Astray
By: Emma Donoghue
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781443410793
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Canadian Short stories
Description: Goldminer. Counterfeiter. Slave. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The colourful, fascinating characters that roam the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to the Yukon gold rush, antebellum Louisiana to a 1960s Toronto highway. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.
Notes: Short stories.
Table of contents: title: Man and boy; title: Onward; title: The widow's cruse; title: Last supper at Brown's; title: Counting the days; title: Snowblind; title: The long way home; title: The body swap; title: The gift; title: The lost seed; title: Vanitas; title: The hunt; title: Daddy's girl; title: What remains.