Loss (Great Short Stories for Women by Women)
Editorial HEAD OF ZEUS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher HEAD OF ZEUS
- ISBN13 9781781856659
- ISBN10 1781856656
- Type BOOK
- Pages 464
- Published 2014
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
English LiteratureLoss (Great Short Stories for Women by Women)
Editorial HEAD OF ZEUS
Mainland Spain
Book details
'I think few of the stories in Loss will leave readers cold...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars. All the stories in this volume are about loss: lost lives, lost loves, lost innocence, even a lost leopard. The many ways in which loss touches our lives are shown in these varied stories. CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy Parker, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Rhys, Anna Kavan, Muriel Spark, Ellen Gilchrist, Penelope Fitzgerald, Lorrie Moore, Hilary Mantel, Susan Hill, Colette Paul, Yiyun Li, Helen Simpson, Edna O'Brien, Edith Pearlman, Emma Donoghue, Carrie Tiffany and Lucy Wood.