The Missing Woman and Other Stories by Burns, Carole

The Missing Woman and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781910409664)

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Format: Paperback
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The Missing Woman and Other Stories by Burns, Carole

The Missing Woman and Other Stories

$13.99
The Missing Woman and Other Stories by Burns, Carole

The Missing Woman and Other Stories

$13.99
Format: Paperback
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Winner of:
Ploughshares, 2015 John C. Zacharis Award

Stories in The Missing Woman circle around women who are either literally missing - a mother in rehab, a daughter never born - or who are missing some metaphorical piece of themselves. A father tries to convince his uncompromising, anorexic daughter to want to live, a single woman lures men to her bed only to abandon them, and a marriage is shaken by a search party for a woman who's disappeared. Burns asks questions about balance - safety with adventure, dreams with practicality, grief with joy - and challenges the reader to take a journey, make choices...

Author: Carole Burns
ISBN-10: 1910409669
ISBN-13: 9781910409664
Publisher: Parthian
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2015
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
By Carole Burns
By Carole Burns
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Carole Burns is an American author and lecturer from Danbury, Connecticut, who now lives in Cardiff. She is the author of a book of interviews with writers, Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between, and she is head of creative writing at the University of Southampton as well as a co-organizer of the XX Women's Writing Festival. She has been previously short-listed for the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Bridport Prize in Short Fiction, and was awarded the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in Fiction. Her stories have been published in Folio, Ploughshares, Puerto del Sol, and Two Rivers Review.

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