Astray

Name: Astray
Brand: Pan Macmillan
SKU: 9781447209508-V
Price: 3.49 EUR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

By Emma Donoghue

Only 1 item left in stock

Description

This fascinating, fact-inspired fiction collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling Room, is a sequence of fourteen stories about travels to, in, and from North America. 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. Donoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his master's wife to set them both free, and 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 was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award. These strange, true tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past in scattered pieces, and a surprising and moving history for restless times.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Release Date:

2013-03-25

Publication Date:

2013-03-25

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1447209508

ISBN13:

9781447209508

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Minimum Reading Age:

18

Weight:

239 g

Height:

131 cm

Width:

196 cm

Thickness:

25 cm

Condition

Show less

Very good

Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.

Used - very good €3,49

Available immediately

€3,49

Incl. VAT, plus shipping costs

Only 1 item left in stock

Verified second-hand article

Verified second-hand item

Free shipping from 19€

€3,49