Astray
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-2016
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Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's 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. 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 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 2012 Sunday Times Short Story Award. Astray is a sequence of fourteen stories by the prize-winning author of Room and The Sealed Letter. 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.
Main title:
Astray / Emma Donoghue ; read by James Langton, Khristine Hvam, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren, Dion Graham.
Author:
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-, authorLangton, James, narratorGraham, Dion, narratorPetkoff, Robert, narratorHvam, Khristine, narratorToren, Suzanne, narrator
Edition:
Unabridged.
Imprint:
Melbourne, Victoria : Bolinda/Macmillan audio, 2016.℗2015
Collation:
6 audio discs (CD) (06 hr., 30 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container
Notes:
Duration: 06:30:33.6 audio CDs.
Performers:
Read by James Langton and Khristine Hvam and Robert Petkoff and Suzanne Toren and Dion Graham.
Audience:
Interest age level: Adult.
ISBN:
9781509811793 (CDs)9781509811793
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
English
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BRN:
2276744
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