All the Beloved Ghosts

All the Beloved Ghosts
Author: Alison MacLeod
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408863774


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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS Acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded, blending fiction, biography and memoir Hovering on the border of life and death, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures. In 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman emerges from mourning and wears a new fur coat to a dance that will change everything. A teenager searches for his lover on a charged summer evening in 2011, as around him London erupts in anger. A cardiac specialist lingers on the edge of consciousness as he awaits a new heart – and is transported to an attic room half a century ago. In an ancient Yorkshire churchyard, the author visits Sylvia Plath's grave and makes an unexpected connection across time. On a trip to Brighton, reluctant jihadists face the ultimate spiritual test. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury Group, is overcome by the past, all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. Precise, playful and evocative, these exquisitely crafted stories explore memory, the media and mortality, unfolding at the line between reality and fiction. Written with vigorous intelligence and delicate insight, this collection captures the surprising joys, small tragedies and profound truths of existence.


All the Beloved Ghosts
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Alison MacLeod
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-09 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS Acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author
All the Beloved Ghosts
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Alison MacLeod
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-18 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and memoir--from a Booker-longlisted author. Evocative, sensual, and ten
Beloved
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Toni Morrison
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-10-17 - Publisher: Everyman's Library

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a sl
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Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: D. Erickson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-16 - Publisher: Springer

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This study examines the complex relations between the figure of the ghost, the textual figure of metaphor and history, in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel Ga
The Dark and Other Love Stories
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: Deborah Willis
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-14 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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“The emotional range and depth of [Willis’s stories], the clarity and deftness, are astonishing.”—Alice Munro The characters in these thirteen masterful