Astray by Emma Donoghue
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The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of
Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways,
drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters,
attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex,
and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich
historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan
Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto
highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in
the present. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless
times.
"The Hunt" was short-listed for the 2012 Sunday Times EFG
Private Bank Short Story Award.
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