Astray

by Emma Donoghue

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Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, sex and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. Donoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his master's wife to set them both free; she draws out the difficulties of gold mining in the Yukon, even in the supposedly plentiful early days, and she takes us to an early Puritan...Read more
  • ISBN10 1447209494
  • ISBN13 9781447209492
  • Publish Date 25 October 2012
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 April 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Picador
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English