Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South Asia [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Paul Hockings (Author)

Book Description

Series: Encyclopedia of World Cultures | Publication Date: May 15, 1992

In a similar vein to Directions for an Open Body, Kenneth J. Harvey's first book of short stories, this new collection explores an intriguing range of honest and intense human longings. Eloquent, heartbreaking and disturbing, this collection brings wounded beauty, bittersweet humour and commonplace tragedy to light. These twenty stories delve into the strange intimacies that characterize love, hate, and desperation, attentively, hungrily, and with eyes open wide.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Kenneth J. Harvey has been published in several countries and is the critically acclaimed author of four short story collections - Directions for an Open Body (which earned a Commonwealth Writers Prize nomination), The Hole That Must Be Filled, The Great Misogynist (selected as a Globe and Mail Editor's Choice book), and The Flesh So Close - three novels - Brud (shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award), Nine-Tenths Unseen, and Skinhound: There Are No Words - two thrillers - Stalkers and The Woman in the Closet - and a collection of poetry, Kill the Poets. Harvey lives in a small coastal community near St. John's, Newfoundland. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan; 1 edition (May 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816118124
• ISBN-13: 978-0816118120
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,994,794 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

International bestselling author Kenneth J. Harvey's books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and France. He has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Winterset Award, Italy's Libro Del Mare, and has been nominated for the Giller Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His editorials have appeared on CBC Radio, in The Times (London) and in most major Canadian newspapers, including The Globe & Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Telegraph Journal, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star and Halifax Daily News.