Love Minus One & Other Stories - Dundurn

Love Minus One & Other Stories

Published July 1996

Description

Whether we are eavesdropping on the imaginative Saturdays of a Portuguese cleaning lady or living through a divorced woman’s search for the elusive orgasm. Norma Harrs manages in this collection of short stories to absorb the essence of her narrator’s psyche with the clarity of a good actress who gets under the very skin of her characters.

Love, either the absence of or yearning for, is the theme that links that stories in this collection together. Love for a family member, a friend, a lover, or a husband, and sometimes that lack of reciprocity, is the element that gives the stories poignancy and force.

The variety in these stories keeps the reader always guessing. The author doesn’t limit us to the easy answers, but brilliantly provokes us to enlarge our own landscape.

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Contributors

Norma Harrs

Norma Harrs came to Canada from Ireland as a young woman. She is the author of A Certain State of Mind and Love Minus One & Other Stories. A number of her stories have been recorded by Telstar Records and her work has been broadcast on CBC Radio. Norma lives in Toronto.

Book Details

Paperback
July 1996
6x9 in
170 pp
9780888821737
PDF
July 1996
-
170 pp
9781459702769
ePub
July 1996
-
170 pp
9781554885640