Balancing on the Edge of the World (Paperback, New)

These are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it. A small boy is struggles with his parents' divorce, a doctor fails to understand the limits of his medical power, a wronged wife finds a uniquely powerful way to wreak revenge. Sometimes satirical, sometimes innovative and lyrical, the stories home in on those moments when power can spill into powerlessness: the split-second when a self-satisfied teenager is held at knifepoint by muggers, the trip to the woods with the poor kids' which teaches a small girl she's no better than them. They chart the opposite moments when people wrest back power: a daughter rebels against her violent father, a struggling writer decides to expose a conman arts worker, a little girl who wishes her lost father would come back finds she has magic powers. But it's a slippery thing, power, and these vivid, wry stories spring surprises: for nothing, in the end, is ever quite what it seems.

General

Imprint:	Salt Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Elizabeth Baines
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	112
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84471-394-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	1-84471-394-6
Barcode:	9781844713943

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