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OverviewThese moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's characters are exiles who share an intimate knowledge of dislocation: from their culture, from their native countries, from themselves. Her intimate stories capture the turning points in her characters’ lives from Indian lovers on a last romantic weekend before their arranged marriages to a daughter's welcome home after years of travel. Janette Turner Hospital is a wanderer herself. A native of Australia, she has lived in India, England, Canada, and the United States. She is the author of numerous novels, including Oyster, which is published by Norton and was shortlisted for Australia’s Miles Franklin and National Book Awards. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Janette Turner Hospital (University of South Carolina)Publisher: WW Norton & Co Imprint: WW Norton & Co Edition: Reprinted edition Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.282kg ISBN: 9780393306811ISBN 10: 039330681 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 22 August 1990 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Australian-born novelist (Borderline, The Tiger in the Tiger Pit) collects her short fiction, 17 stories mostly published in Canadian and US magazines over the past two decades, and including a piece ( Waiting ) that became the point of departure for her first, much-admired novel, The Ivory Swing (1983). True to their collective title, these skillful fictions concern people who find themselves displaced - whether by accident or circumstance, self-delusion or the death of a loved one - and include of course those who live, like the author, in countries where they weren't born. Culture shock affects many of Hospital's itinerant characters: the Indian-born lovers of Happy Diwali, who must marry others by arrangement back home while joining in loneliness in Canada; the uptight teacher of You Gave Me Hyacinths, who's discomfited by her students in remote Australia, with their brazen sexuality and willful ignorance of the world beyond, and the American student in Waiting, completely defeated by the political and social turmoil in India. Much here suggests the impossibility of cross-cultural understanding, but a few stories hold the possibility of connection - the widow dismayed by the changing make-up of her Canadian neighborhood manages to form an unspoken bond with an equally frightened old Chinese woman who moves next door ( Moving Out ). The Inside Story gently mocks the romantic notions of freedom and punishment held by a woman who teaches convicts; but The Dark Wood is less sympathetic to its protagonist - a somewhat self-satisfied psychologist. Chance alters the lives of a woman whose best friend dies in a freak accident moments after they part ( Some Have Called Thee Mighty and Dreadful ) and of a beautiful young girl horribly disfigured by an exploding can of lighter fluid ( Golden Girl ). Some here have their new lives forced upon them, others choose a nomadic life, but most of them realize there's no turning back. A powerful collection by an international talent. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationJanette Turner Hospital received Australia's Patrick White Award for lifetime literary achievement, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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