North of Nowhere, South of Loss: Stories

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.

Author: Janette Turner Hospital
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/01/2006
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.64w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780393327526

About the Author
Hospital, Janette Turner: - Janette Turner Hospital received Australia's Patrick White Award for lifetime literary achievement, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina.