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North of Nowhere, South of Loss short story collection These internationally-acclaimed stories chart the author's nomadic trajectory from Deep North Australia to America's Deep South. In these prize-winning stories, Janette Turner
Hospital explores the infinite incarnations of loss — lovers
meeting again in midlife re-experience, through the memory of photographs
both real and imagined, the passion that both frightened and thrilled
them; a young dental hygienist adrift, living in a hostel in northern
Australia, receives a heart-wrenching visit from her drug-dependent
brother; a mother and adolescent daughter move into a new house,
and their sense of safety is shaken when the previous owner reappears,
desperate to reclaim what he has lost. Hospital's characters oscillate
between estrangement and intense connectedness, between a permanent
sense of dislocation and a yearning to belong. "Hospital goes from strength to literary
strength ever brilliant in ideas, graceful in expression, resourceful
in story." "Her stories are like brief cyclones wrapped
around an unexpected center of calm." "Turner Hospital has a rich, allusive style
and a gift for intensity which etches the geography of her characters'
inner lives as sharply as it does the cities, towns and climates
in which they live." PURCHASE THIS BOOK FROM AMAZON: Canada
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