Balancing on the edge of the world
Baines, Elizabeth200710UU
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Contains stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it: a boy caught between divorced parents, the arts worker conman, the avenging wife. These are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it - the boy caught between divorced parents, the arts worker conman, the avenging wife. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, and always surprising: for it's a slippery thing, power, and nothing is ever quite what it seems ...
Main title:
Balancing on the edge of the world / Elizabeth Baines.
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Imprint:
Cambridge : Salt Publishing,UK : [distributor] Gardners Books Ltd : [distributor] Inbooks : [distributor] Inbooks : [distributor] Lightning Source, 2007.
Collation:
112 p. ; 20x13x1 cm.
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Notes:
Paperback. Trade paperback (US).Epublication based on: 9786612095047, 2007.
Contents:
Condensed MetaphysicsThe Shooting ScriptDaniel Smith Disappears off the Face of the EarthPowerHolding HandsCompass and TorchStar ThingsLeaf MemoryA Glossary of BreadGoing BackInto the NightConundrumThe Way to BehaveWho's Singing?Acknowledgements.
Biography/History:
Elizabeth Baines was born in South Wales and lives in Manchester. She has been a teacher and is an occasional actor as well as the prize-winning author of plays for radio and stage, and of two novels, The Birth Machine and Body Cuts. Her award-winning short stories have been published widely in magazines and anthologies. This is her first collection.
ISBN:
9781844713943 (pbk)1844713946 (pbk)
Dewey class:
AF
Language:
English
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BRN:
1126063