Review
'Hospital goes from strength to literary strength ever brilliant in ideas, graceful in expression, resourceful in story.' Fay Weldon 'Her stories are like brief cyclones wrapped around an unexpected center of calm.' Los Angeles Times Book Review 'Janette Turner Hospital is a writer of consummate craft and visionary insight. She is always surprising, and seems always to be renewing herself as one of our major writers.' Joyce Carol Oates 'One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today.' TLS
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Product Description
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.
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