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Fiction Gay

Love Alters

Lesbian Love Stories

edited by Emma Donoghue

Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Initial publish date
Jun 2013
Category
Gay, Short Stories
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781620877036
    Publish Date
    Jun 2013
    List Price
    $18.50

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Twenty-nine stories from writers both new and established, edited by thebestselling author of Room

Love Alters is an excitinganthology featuring both internationally renowned authors as well as newer authors from all across the English-speaking world. Countries represented here include England, Ireland,Scotland, Wales, South Africa, America, Canada, Jamaica, Trinidad, Australia,and New Zealand.  Compiled not because the authors identify aslesbian (or agree with labels at all) each of these stories deals with themesof love, lust, loss, or a combination of the three, by women writers of allpersuasions. The result is a wild, exciting, and fresh anthology that was honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist upon first publication in 1999.

With itsfocus on new writing as well as established writers the authors featured hereinclude: Dorothy Allison, Patricia Dunker, Tanith Lee, JenniferLevin, Anna Livia, Ingrid Macdonald, Sara Maitland, Shani Mootoo, Ali Smith,Elizabeth Taylor, Shay Youngblood, and many others.

About the author

EMMA DONOGHUE was born in Dublin and lived in England for many years before moving to Canada. She writes in many genres, including theatre, radio drama and literary history, but is best known for her fiction, both historical (SlammerkinThe Sealed LetterAstrayFrog Music) and contemporary (Stir-FryHoodLandingTouchy Subjects). Her seventh novel, Room, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean region) and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. It sold more than two million copies. Donoghue scripted the film adaptation, a Canadian-Irish film by Lenny Abrahamson starring Brie Larson, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. And her most recent novel, The Wonder, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2016.

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