Love Alters - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472109856 ISBN 13: 9781472109859

Publisher: Robinson Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

With this anthology, honoured on first publication as a Lambda Literary Award finalist, Emma Donoghue offers an eloquent and timely definition of the modern lesbian short story. Breaking out beyond North American writer, she assembles an impressively broad array of twenty-nine writers from South Africa to Trinidad, from Australia to Ireland, and from Jamaica to New Zealand. The greater international range is evident not just in subject matter, but in style, too: the writers have little in common other than that they have written on lesbian themes. The intention was not to compile a 'Best of' collection; the focus is very much on new stories rather than those already much-anthologised. Well-known authors are represented, but not by their best-known work, and widely anthologised authors make way for less familiar names. Chronologically, the focus is on the modern side of the watershed marked by the June 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York and the ensuing Gay Liberation and Women's Liberation movements.

About this title

About the Author:

Emma Donoghue is an award-winning writer. Born in Dublin in 1969, she now lives in Canada with her family. Her novels are the international bestseller Room, which was a finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, The Sealed Letter, Life Mask, Slammerkin, Hood and Stir-fry. Her short-story collections are Astray, Three and a Half Deaths, Touchy Subjects, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits and Kissing the Witch, and her works of literary history include Inseparable, We Are Michael Field and Passions Between Women. In a career that has bridged lesbian and mainstream literature, she is widely acknowledged for having made lesbian themes accessible to a much wider audience.

About this edition

• Publisher: Robinson Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1472109856
• ISBN 13: 9781472109859
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Emma Donoghue