From single page tales to the long sequence that ends the book, James’s sure hand leads us through sometimes harrowing, sometimes redemptive moments in her beautifully rounded characters’ lives.
WHO Magazine
These are tales of fugitive lives: dazzling portraits of women and men on the run; from their present, their past, their future – from themselves… Here, finally, is the complete collection of short fiction from award-winning author Wendy James. Holding a discerning mirror to seemingly ordinary lives, James captures recurring themes of love, betrayal, passion and guilt to show just how vulnerable and intricate the human heart really is. Whether narrating from the living room of a contemporary marriage, from the wheel of a desperate getaway car, or while composing an elaborate diversion in 18th century Salzburg, James has the rare ability to wryly comment on humankind with unnerving clarity and precision.
ISBN: 99781921401190
ISBN-10: 1921401192
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 1st May 2009
Country of Publication: AU
Dimensions (cm): 12.9 x 19.8
Weight: 232g
Edition Number: 1
From single page tales to the long sequence that ends the book, James’s sure hand leads us through sometimes harrowing, sometimes redemptive moments in her beautifully rounded characters’ lives.
WHO Magazine
…a penetrating picture of our life and times … a knockout.
Sara Dowse
Canberra Times
…absolutely amazing … There is something for everyone in this fantastic book.
Bookseller and Publisher
Emotionally astute, vivid and eloquent, underpinned by eroticism, James’s fiction traces the contours of her characters’ lives as they grapple with responsibility, freedom, and love, propelled by multifarious desires. These fresh, sensuous stories are by turns witty, perceptive and coruscating, many with a delicious wry twist.
Felicity Plunkett
What quiet confidence, what an honest setting down of things as they are, nothing extenuating … This is a gifted story-teller and these are unusually arresting stories.
Robert Lumsden
Adelaide Review