Description
| Product ID: | 9781447209508 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Astray |
| Authors: | Author: Emma Donoghue |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A collection of fact-inspired short stories, from the bestselling author of Room. <p><b>This fascinating, </b><b>fact-inspired fiction </b><b>collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling <i>Room</i>, is a sequence of fourteen stories about travels to, in, and from North America.</b><br><br>With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito.<br><br>Donoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his master's wife to set them both free, and takes us to an early Puritan community in Massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal. <i>Astray</i> also includes 'The Hunt', a shocking confession of one soldier's violent betrayal during the American Revolution, which was shortlisted for the <i>Sunday Times</i> Short Story Award.<br><br><b>These strange, true tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past in scattered pieces, and a surprising and moving history for restless times.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-03-25 |
