Astray - Rilegato

Emma Donoghue

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ISBN 10: 1447209494 ISBN 13: 9781447209492

Casa editrice: Picador, 2012

Riassunto

Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's 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 master's 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 soldier's 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 centuries of wanderings, offering a past made up of deviations, and a surprising and moving history for restless times.

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Recensione:

‘Emma Donoghue is one of the great literary ventriloquists of our time. Her imagination is kaleidoscopic. She steps borders and boundaries with great ease and style. In her hands the centuries dissolve, and then they crystallise back again into powerful words on the page.’ Colum McCann

‘Time and again, Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before, and Astray is no exception. There is such a deep and compassionate imagination at work in every story in this collection that Astray feels almost like an act of clairvoyance.’ --Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto

"Some authors inspire us with their distinctive, inimitable voices. We love them for their familiar lilts and trills- the tune of each novel might be new but we always recognise the singer. Donoghue is an artist of a different kind. She is a shape-shifter, a subtle, imaginative impersonator. What changes from book to book is no less than the style, the era and the author herself. But what unifies all her prose is an uncommon ability to animate a quirk of history, to uncover in her fiction the oddities that make life so fascinating." --Financial Times

"The predominant theme of these tales is one of exile, of drifting unintentionally into another life, their emotion truth reflecting the experience of the Irish born-and-bred writer who now lives in Canada" --Daily Mail

"the collection continues [Donoghue's] interest in gutsy women from the margins of history . . . Characters are always vividly voiced . . . Astray is a neatly composed collection, with a solid overarching structure . . . it's like a series of satifyingly tasty little snacks." --Independent on Sunday

"In Astray . . . Donoghue exhibits the same flair [as in Room]. Donoghue is a skilful story-teller and this collection benefits both from her impressive imagination and detailed research . . . Astray deserves a wider audience than Donoghue's early works recevied. I hope the legacy of Room is that she gets it." --Evening Standard

"The brilliant Room put Emma Donoghue at the top of the bestseller charts and this collection of 14 short stories from the Irish author is, like that, inspired by real-life tales. But while Room had its roots in the recent Josef Fritzl case, Astray takes strange, true stories of revenge, love, violence and freedom from history and brings them alive for readers today."
--Bella

Descrizione del libro:

‘Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before, and Astray is no exception. There is such a deep and compassionate imagination at work in every story in this collection that Astray feels almost like an act of clairvoyance.’ Ann Patchett, Orange prize-winning author of Bel Canto

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1447209494
• ISBN 13: 9781447209492
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288