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Love Minus One & Other Stories

Norma Harrs author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Dundurn Group

Published:5th Sep '96

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Whether we 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.

"Amid the cacophony of experimental writing emanating from Canadian small presses these days, Norma Harris' Love Minus One & Other Stories strikes a distinctive note."

-- Mark Cohen * Books in Review *

"There's a wonderfully satisfying sense of the delicate art of eavesdropping." "Her great strength in short-story writing is perhaps in bringing the talents of journalist and actor to the development of her characters' psyche."

-- Rod Currie

"Harrs knows about people and love, and it shows."

-- Marie Berry * Winnipeg Free Pre

ISBN: 9780888821737

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm

Weight: 241g

170 pages