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The Missing Woman and Other Stories
Carole Burns
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Description for The Missing Woman and Other Stories
Paperback. Stories in The Missing Woman circle around women who are either literally missing or who are missing some metaphorical piece of themselves. Burns asks questions about balance - safety with adventure - dreams with practicality - grief with joy - and challenges the reader to take a journey, make choices.. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 188.
Stories in The Missing Woman circle around women who are either literally missing - a mother in rehab, a daughter never born - or who are missing some metaphorical piece of themselves. A father tries to convince his uncompromising,anorexic daughter to want to live, a single woman lures men to her bed only to abandon them, and a marriage is shaken by a search party for a woman who's disappeared. Burns asks questions about balance - safety with adventure - dreams with practicality - grief with joy - and challenges the reader to take a journey, make choices...
Stories in The Missing Woman circle around women who are either literally missing - a mother in rehab, a daughter never born - or who are missing some metaphorical piece of themselves. A father tries to convince his uncompromising,anorexic daughter to want to live, a single woman lures men to her bed only to abandon them, and a marriage is shaken by a search party for a woman who's disappeared. Burns asks questions about balance - safety with adventure - dreams with practicality - grief with joy - and challenges the reader to take a journey, make choices...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Parthian Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910409664
SKU
V9781910409664
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-2
About Carole Burns
Carole Burns is an author and lecturer who lives in Cardiff. Her book of interviews with writers, Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between, was published by Norton in 2008; her first collection of stories, The Missing Woman, is being published by Parthian in 2015. She is Head of Creative Writing at the ... Read more
Reviews for The Missing Woman and Other Stories
"Beautiful, memorable stories, artfully nuanced, boldly honest." Joanna Scott "These stories explore the complex harmonies within real imperfect relationships, revealing moments in a life when a carefully held balance shifts and, imperceptibly, that life is changed." Philip Gross