Astray :

Emma Donoghue

ISBN 10: 1447209494 / ISBN 13: 9781447209492

Published by Picador Books, 2012

About this Item

Published In 2012 : 1st. Edition : 1st. Printing : Full Printing Numbers Listed , 1 - 9 : Picador Books : Overall, A Very Nice Book : Seller Inventory # 21 - 17426

Bibliographic Details

Title: Astray :

Publisher: Picador Books

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

Review:

‘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

‘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 crystallize back again into powerful words on the page.’ Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin