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Donoghue, Emma
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Fiction
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Picador
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en-GB
β 204 KB
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Three and a Half Deaths
β Scribed by Emma Donoghue
- Book ID
- 115289659
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 204 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781447213048
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
An accident, a suicide, an act of criminal negligence . . . and a near-death experience. These stories β set in France, the USA and Canada β bring together calamities from two centuries. 'What the Driver Saw' is inspired by a freak accident on Nice's Promenade des Anglais, the 1920s equivalent of Princess Diana's last ride through Paris. 'The Trap' takes us to New York, 1878, when a woman at the centre of a public scandal decides that she's finally had enough. Any thinking about death must of course include its lingering effects on the living; 'Sissy' explores the guilt and culpability of a survivor, whose young sister died in the 1840s in London, Ontario Finally, 'Fall' is about an incident at Niagara Falls in 1901 when a middle-aged schoolteacher decided to stake her whole future on an act so daring it could be called suicidal. A near-death, a sort of rebirth: the kind of moment that makes visible the discreet courage it takes to live a whole life.
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