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Longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award and the 2014 Giller Prize “Moody, shape-shifting, provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down...but will."— Amy Bloom "Tight, strange, nifty stories."— Margaret Atwood The rubble of an ancient civilization. A village in a valley from which no one comes or goes. A forest of mother-trees, whispering to each other through their roots; a lakeside lighthouse where a girl slips into human skin as lightly as an otter into water; a desert settlement where there was no conflict, before she came; or the town of Wantwick, ruled by a soothsayer, where tourists lose everything they have. These are the places where things begin. New from the author of The Story of My Face , Paradise & Elsewhere is a collection of dark fables at once familiar and entirely strange: join the Orange Prize-nominated Kathy Page as she notches a new path through the wild, lush, half-fantastic and half-real terrain of fairy tale and myth. Praise for Paradise & Elsewhere “This vibrant, startlingly imaginative collection reminded me—as few collections have done in recent years—of both where stories come from, and why

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Page, Kathy
Publisher
Biblioasis
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781927428597
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
Rating
3.6 / 5 (128 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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