Love Alters
Lesbian Love Stories
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2013
- Category
- Gay, Short Stories
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781620877036
- Publish Date
- Jun 2013
- List Price
- $18.50
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Description
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 (Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Astray, Frog Music) and contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy 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.
