{"product_id":"astray-2","title":"Emma Donoghue: Astray [2012] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e`Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before, and \u003ci\u003eAstray\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Orange prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eState of Wonder \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 a Puritan community in Massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal. \u003ci\u003eAstray\u003c\/i\u003e also includes `The Hunt', a shocking confession of one soldier's violent betrayal during the American Revolution, which was shortlisted for the 2012 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Short Story Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAstray\u003c\/i\u003e is a sequence of fourteen stories by the prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sealed Letter\u003c\/i\u003e. These strange, true tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past made up of deviations, and a surprising and moving history for restless times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `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, author of \u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donoghue, Emma","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44493802832162,"sku":"9781447211952","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":49000201027923,"sku":"XG81447211952","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47206995657043,"sku":"XV81447211952","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/donoghue-emma-emma-donoghue-astray-2012-paperback-57804432245075.jpg?v=1727434757","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/astray-2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}