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Book by Hospital, Janette Turner
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About the Author
Janette Turner Hospital received Australia's Patrick White Award for lifetime literary achievement, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina.
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The culture of many countriesher native Australia, England, India, the U.S. and Canada, where last year she was named among "Best Ten Younger Writers"is woven through these richly diverse stories in a first short story collection by Hospital. In this aptly titled gathering, we experience the uprootedness of people whose lives are changed by circumstances over which they have no control. "Happy Diwali" follows two young lovers, Indians living in Canada; the parkas and ski caps they must wear in this cold climate are in strange contrast with saris and other colorful adornments appropriate for the celebration of a traditional festival. In "Moving Out," an elderly Canadian widow is differently displaced and begins a painful coping with the large, noisy Chinese family that has moved in next door. Notable for its wry interpretation of a social reality is "Mosie." The central character is a street-wise black cleaning lady in the employ of Columbia University who shepherds one of her clients, a Chaucer-spouting widow, through the mine field of a neighborhood in transition. In these portrayals of people who feel "other" wherever they happen to be, a sense of place is captured in nuances of speech and emotions. Hospital's novels include the Seal Award-winning The Ivory Swing.
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- PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0771042191
- ISBN 13 9780771042195
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages179
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