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NORTH OF NOWHERE, SOUTH OF LOSS IBD

W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
03 / 2006
9780393327526
Inglês

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In 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.