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North of Nowhere, South of Loss: Stories
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780393327526
ISBN: 0393327523
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: March 20, 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
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"A new standard for the short story genre that will be hard to surpass."—Library JournalIn these prize-winning, "heartbreakingly nuanced" (Speakeasy) stories, Janette Turner Hospital explores the infinite incarnations of loss—lovers meeting again in midlife re-experience, through the memory of photographs both real and imagined, the passion that both frightened and thrilled them; a young dental hygienist adrift, living in a hostel in northern Australia, receives a heart-wrenching visit from her drug-dependent brother; a mother and adolescent daughter move into a new house, and their sense of safety is shaken when the previous owner reappears, desperate to reclaim what he has lost. Hospital's characters oscillate between estrangement and intense connectedness, between a permanent sense of dislocation and a yearning to belong.
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Rating:  - These Stories Are East of Wonderful!
Janette Turner Hospital has written fourteen short stories here, seven of which have been previously published in another short story collection, all of which appear to have been published in literary magazines or journals. The stories are set all the way from Australia to the Southern United States. The characters are wildly different in their problems and dilemmas; but to a person, they are engaging and alive. It's difficult to select a "best of" as there are no bad stories here. In the first ... Read More
Rating:  - Everything in its time
Hospital has created a book of interconnected short stories, not a happy ending in sight. Rather, she takes incidents from her character's lives, sometimes seemingly minor, other times desperately tragic, and weaves an unusual narrative that reaches past the obvious, into far murkier waters of love, obsession, loss and acceptance.
Beginning in North Australia, the scenes redolent of that particular country and moving finally into the deep south of America, the author's sense of place ... Read More
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