Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue was born in Ireland, but studied 18th-century literature at Cambridge, so it’s not so surprising the author has a gift for reading historical documents and conveying the odd, telling detail—not to mention the odd, telling character. In her new collection of stories, Astray (Little Brown and Company, $25.99), Donoghue presents14 stories featuring emigrants, runaway, drifters, lovers, attorneys and slaves, all of whom have one thing in common: they’ve gone astray. “Time and again,” writes author Ann Patchett, “Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before.” Consider her international bestseller, Room, in which Donoghue depicted a mother and child whose entire universe consisted of an 11x11 ft. space that was both their home and their prison. Donoghue navigates literary genre as easily as a trip across town; she has written literary history, biography, stage and radio plays –even fairy tales. Spend an evening with a writer who, according to The Observer, “. . . seems to be able to work on any register, any, tone, any atmosphere, and make it her own.”
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