Real Life: Short Stories

✍ Scribed by Butala, Sharon

• Book ID: 108465102
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 472 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781443402132

✦ Synopsis

In 1985, Sharon Butala' s first collection of short stories, Queen of the Headaches , was nominated for a Governor General' s Award. Her second, Fever , won the 1992 Authors Award for Paperback Fiction and was nominated for a Commonwealth Award. The publication of Real Life , her newest collection, once again shows she is a master of the genre.

Real Life contains ten perfectly formed stories, singular moments of emotional intensity about the inner lives we all share. In " Light," a woman whose sister is dying an agonizing death from cancer finds a compelling attraction to the stories of Holocaust survivors. In " Real Life," Raine, a middle-aged divorced woman, runs into her former husband-- and the still-sharp pain of an affair that changed the course of their lives. " Keeping House" tells of a daughter' s impending divorce, forcing her mother to re-examine her own abusive first marriage. Each story presents the...