{"product_id":"astray-9780316206280","title":"Astray","description":"The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. \u003ci\u003eAstray\u003c\/i\u003e offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-90397\"\u003eEmma Donoghue\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316206280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0316206288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC014000\"\u003eHistorical | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Dublin in 1969, \u003cb\u003eEmma Donoghue\u003c\/b\u003e is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays as well as fairy tales and short stories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (\u003ci\u003eFrog Music, Slammerkin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife Mask\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLanding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sealed Letter\u003c\/i\u003e) to the contemporary (\u003ci\u003eAkin, Stir-Fry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLanding\u003c\/i\u003e). Her international bestseller \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes.","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42659816308973,"sku":"9780316206280","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_900870e4-e271-4517-893b-9c7be4b2ecaa.jpg?v=1649343742","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/astray-9780316206280","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}