Book description
Whetherwe are eavesdropping on the imaginative Saturdays of a
Portuguese cleaning lady or living through a divorced woman's search
for the elusive orgasm. Norma Harrs manages in this collection of
short stories to absorb the essence of her narrator's psyche with the
clarity of a good actress who gets under the very skin of her characters.
Love, either the absence of or yearning for, is the theme that links
that stories in this collection together. Love for a family member, a
friend, a lover, or a husband, and sometimes that lack of reciprocity,
is the element that gives the stories poignancy and force.
The variety in these stories keeps the reader always guessing. The
author doesn't limit us to the easy answers, but brilliantly provokes
us to enlarge our own landscape.
"There stories also remind us of our endless human appetite for
what literary theoreticians disdainfully refer to as 'closure'--that is,
the sense of a fictional point actually being made." Norma Harrs
came to Canada from Ireland as a young woman. She is the author of
A
Certain State of Mind
and
Love Minus One & Other Stories.
A number of her stories have been recorded by Telstar Records and her
work has been broadcast on CBC Radio. Norma lives in Toronto.
