North of Nowhere, South of Loss

by Hospital, Janette Turner

• ISBN13: 9780393059915
• ISBN10: 039305991X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-15
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

These internationally-acclaimed stories chart the author's nomadic trajectory from Deep North Australia to America's Deep South. In these prize-winning stories, Janette Turner Hospital explores the infinite incarnations of losslovers meeting again in midlife re-experience, through the memory of photographs both real and imagined, the passion that both frightened and thrilled them; a young dental hygienist adrift, living in a hostel in northern Australia, receives a heart-wrenching visit from her drug-dependent brother; a mother and adolescent daughter move into a new house, and their sense of safety is shaken when the previous owner reappears, desperate to reclaim what he has lost. Hospital's characters oscillate between estrangement and intense connectedness, between a permanent sense of dislocation and a yearning to belong.

Author Biography

Janette Turner Hospital is the Carolina Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of South Carolina.

Table of Contents

The Ocean of Brisbane	1	(22)
North of Nowhere	23	(21)
For Mr Voss or Occupant	44	(33)
Unperformed Experiments Have No Results	77	(19)
Our Own Little Kakadu	96	(18)
Cape Tribulation	114	(14)
Flight	128	(17)
Frames and Wonders	145	(23)
Nativity	168	(26)
Credit Repair	194	(24)
South of Loss	218	(19)
Night Train	237	(19)
Litany for the Homeland	256	(17)
The End-of-the-Line End-of-the-World Disco	273	(12)
Acknowledgments	285