Astray / Emma Donoghue.
Author: Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2012.
ISBN: 9780316206297 (hbk.)
0316206296 (hbk.)
Description: x, 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Short stories Women authors.
Short stories, American.
Short stories.
Historical fiction.
Contents: Departures. Man and boy ; Onward ; The widow's cruse ; Last supper at Brown's -- In transit. Counting the days ; Snowblind ; The long way home ; The body swap ; The gift -- Arrivals and aftermaths. The lost seed ; Vanitas ; The hunt ; Daddy's girl ; What remains.
Summary: A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.