Astray - Emma Donoghue
KORTE INHOUD
Counterfeiter, dishwasher, prostitute, attorney, sculptor, mercenary, elephant, corpse the fascinating characters that roam across the pages of emma donoghues latest, fact inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters they cross other borders, too those of race, law, sex and sanity they travel for love or money, incognito or under duress donoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his masters wife to set them both free she draws out the difficulties of gold mining in the yukon, even in the supposedly plentiful early days and she takes us to an early puritan community in massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal astray also includes the hunt, a shocking confession of one soldiers violent betrayal during the american revolution, which has been shortlisted for the 2012 sunday times short story award astray is a sequence of fourteen stories by the prize winning author of room and the sealed letter these strange, true tales light up four centu...
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2012 Uitgever: Macmillan Hardback Omes Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1447211952 ISBN-13: 9781447211952Koop dit boek tweedehands
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