Astray

Donoghue, Emma 1969- (Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781443410793 (hc.)
ISBN: 9781443410809 (trade pbk.)
Physical Description: x, 275 p. ; 24 cm.
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Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : HarperCollins, c2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:dec.12 Short stories.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments.