Astray / Emma Donoghue.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 275 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0316206296
- 9780316206297
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adult Book
|
Main Library | Fiction | Donoghue Emma | Available | 33111007020601 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.
The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress.
With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.
Man and boy -- Onward -- The widow's cruse -- Last supper at Brown's -- Counting the days -- Snowblind -- The long way home -- The body swap -- The gift -- The lost seed -- Vanitas -- The hunt -- Daddy's girl -- What remains.
A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.