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Title: DURING MOTHER'S ABSENCE
By: Michele Roberts
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 185381797X
ISBN 13: 9781853817977
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Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 7 July, 1994
Pages: 192
Description: By the winner of the 1993 W.H. Smith Literary Award and shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize with her sixth novel "Daughters of the House", this is a collection of the author's short stories.
Synopsis: Subversive, sensual tales, wise and witty fictions; this collection of short stories from one of Britain's most acclaimed novelists is by turns shockingly delicious and soberingly disquieting. When mother is away taboos are breached, the untouchables embraced and the forbidden tasted. In 'Laundry' a poor, plain girl takes devilish pleasure in outwitting the pious monks and nuns she washes for. In the haunting, powerful fable 'Anger' a young woman, branded by fire at birth by her mother is scarred- and blessed- for life. In the highly sensuous 'Taking it Easy' a mother with writers block finds an escape from the slavery of her twin enemies by turning them into food for thought. And in the beautiful, arresting 'God's House' a young girl faces the ultimate mother's absence.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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