North of Nowhere, South of Loss
Subtitle: Stories
Edition: 1st American Ed edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780393059915
Subjects: Modern fiction; Popular English Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary; Short Stories (single author); Australia; Social life and customs; Southern States
First sentence: His voice came out of the black space between the two projectors.
Description: "In these stories Janette Turner Hospital explores the infinite incarnations of loss - lovers meeting again in midlife reexperience, through the memory of photographs, both real and imagined, the passion that both frightened and thrilled them; a young dental hygienist adrift, living in a hostel in northern Australia, receives a heart-wrenching visit from her drug-dependent brother; a mother and adolescent daughter move into a new house and their sense of safety is shaken when the previous owner reappears, desperate to reclaim what he has lost. Hospital's characters oscillate between estrangement and intense connectedness, between a permanent sense of dislocation and a yearning to belong."--BOOK JACKET.