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Restlessness - Paperback

by Aritha van Herk
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Availability:In StockContributor:Aritha van HerkSeries:FictionPublish date:9/29/2005Pages:193
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Red Deer PressISBN-13:9780889951853ISBN-10:889951853UPC:9780889951853Book Category:FictionSize:7.54 x 5.13 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCVRN1B5VS

Desperate to find a home, a restless, wandering woman determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death. Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts him to murder her, by her choice and on her terms.

Restlessness chronicles their meeting and its unexpected story and outcome. In an effort to dissuade the woman from death, her killer elicits from her stories about her travels.

In this reversal of Sheherazade, who saves her life through a continuous story, Restlessness becomes a story about how to avoid story, a travel book about how to evade travel, a manual for how to stay put. Breathtaking in the tension of its incipient murder, this novel will not permit the reader to break the thread of watching and waiting that both death and travel conjure.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Red Deer PressISBN-13:9780889951853ISBN-10:889951853UPC:9780889951853Book Category:FictionSize:7.54 x 5.13 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCVRN1B5VS
Aritha van Herk was born in central Alberta, and studied at the University of Alberta. She first rose to international literary prominence with the publication of Judith, which received the Seal First Novel Award and which was published in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Professor who teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
Publisher: Red Deer Press

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