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ASTRAY

Emma Donoghue

Stories

From the acclaimed author of the bestselling "Room", a set of moving stories spanning centuries and continents. The fascinating characters who roam across the pages have all gone astray: the are emigrants, runaways, drifters, and lovers old and new.

With the turn of each page, the protagonists of these stories go astray in various senses. 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. Astray transports the reader from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, from antebellum Louisiana to a 1960s Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. The book offers a past in scattered pieces, a moving history for restless times.

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Book Published 2012-10-01 by Little Brown
Book Published 2012-10-01 by Little Brown

Comments

“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.”

Previous title sold more than one milion copies. ROOM, was a magical experience. Beloved in-house from the instant editor-in-chief Judy Clain acquired it, Room has now sold more than one million copies. It debuted in the top ten on the New York Times hardcover list and remained on that list for 34 weeks; the paperback was in the top ten on the NYT bestseller list for over 25 weeks. Room was a 2010 Man Booker Prize finalist and appeared on many "best of 2010" lists and received rave reviews from major and indie news outlets including Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Washington Post, Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, People, Time, The New Yorker, and many more.

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 crystallize back again into powerful words on the page.

Rights have been licensed to Atlas in Holland and Stock in France.

Donoghue applies her talents for characterization and depth of feeling over and over again as she documents restless wanderers and lost souls across four generations, each in a world as strange and real as the last. Read more...