Bibliograph

Real life, short stories, Sharon Butala

Type

Label

Real life, short stories, Sharon Butala

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Real life

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Sharon Butala

Sub title

short stories

Summary

In 1985, Sharon Butala's first collection of short stories, Queen of the Headaches, was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Her second, Fever, won the 1992 Authors Award for Paperback Fiction and was nominated for a Commonwealth Award. The publication of Real Life, her newest collection, once again shows she is a master of the genre. Real Life contains ten perfectly formed stories, singular moments of emotional intensity about the inner lives we all share. In "Light," a woman whose sister is dying an agonizing death from cancer finds a compelling attraction to the stories of Holocaust survivors. In "Real Life," Raine, a middle-aged divorced woman, runs into her former husband-and the still-sharp pain of an affair that changed the course of their lives. "Keeping House" tells of a daughter's impending divorce, forcing her mother to re-examine her own abusive first marriage. Each story presents the moments of "real life" that all of us experience, stripping away defenses to reveal truths of pain, joy, anger, fear, or hope

Target audience

adult

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