Astray (Paperback, Open market ed)

Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest short story collection 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 intriguing tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past made up of deviations, and a surprising and moving history for restless times.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2012
Authors:	Emma Donoghue
Dimensions:	235 x 153 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	274
Edition:	Open market ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4472-1195-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Books > Fiction > Special features > Fiction anthologies & collections
LSN:	1-4472-1195-2
Barcode:	9781447211952

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