Astray - Couverture souple

Donoghue, Emma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1447209508 ISBN 13 : 9781447209508

Editeur : Picador, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

A sequence of fourteen fact-inspired fictions about travels to, in and from North America, Astray offers a past in scattered pieces, a surprising and moving history for restless times.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1447209508
• ISBN 13: 9781447209508
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288