The One That Got Away: Short Stories: Easyread Large Edition
- ISBN-10
- 1458746445
- ISBN-13
- 9781458746443
- Series
- The One that Got Away
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-11-26
- Publisher
- ReadHowYouWant.com
- Author
- Zoë Wicomb
Description
THE APPEARANCE OF ZOE WICOMB'S first set of short stories, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, precipitated an ardent international fan club that has come to include the writers Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, Bharati Mukherjee, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, as well as critics at the New York Times, the Times of London, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the Christian Science Monitor. Now, after two novels, Wicomb returns to the genre that first brought her international acclaim. Set mostly in Cape Town and Glasgow, Wicomb's new collection of short stories straddles dual worlds. An array of characters drawn with extraordinary acuity inhabit a complexly interconnected, twenty-first-century universe. The twelve stories in this collection, most previously unpublished, explore a spectrum of human relationships: marriage, friendship, family ties, neighbors, and relations between those who serve and are served. Wicomb's intriguing characters include the adolescent girl Elsie, navigating between her new life in the icy city of Glasgow and her family's vexed history in South Africa, and Dot and Julie, a pair of friends once united by the color of their skin and now discovering how time and marriage have divided their paths. Wicomb's fluid, shifting technique questions conventional certainties and makes for exhilarating reading, full of ironic twists, ambiguities, and moments of startling insight. Long awaited, The One That Got Away showcases this brilliant, award-winning author at the height of her powers.
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