{"product_id":"astray","title":"Emma Donoghue: Astray [2012] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCounterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 community in Massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal. \u003ci\u003eAstray\u003c\/i\u003e also includes `The Hunt', a shocking confession of one soldier's violent betrayal during the American Revolution, which has been shortlisted for the 2012 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Short Story Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAstray\u003c\/i\u003e is a sequence of fourteen stories by the prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sealed Letter\u003c\/i\u003e. These strange, true tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past made up of deviations, and a surprising and moving history for restless times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donoghue, Emma","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":53221458346323,"sku":"XE81447209492","price":10.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":44493799031074,"sku":"9781447209492","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48691053789523,"sku":"XV81447209492","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/donoghue-emma-emma-donoghue-astray-2012-hardback-60241146216787.jpg?v=1773241406","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/astray","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}