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Touchy Subjects
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Author(s): Emma Donoghue  
ISBN: 1844083012
ISBN-13: 9781844083015
Publication Date: 02 Nov 2006
Pages: 288 (216 x 135)
Format: Paperback
Published Price: £9.99


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DESCRIPTION:
How do you make conversation with a sperm donor? How do you say someone's novel is drivel? Would you give a screaming baby brandy? In what words would you tell your girlfriend to pluck a hair on her chin? Touchy Subjects is about things that make people wince: taboos, controversies, secrets and lies. Some of the events that characters crash into are grand, tragic ones: miscarriage, overdose, missing persons, a mother who deserts her children. Other topics, like religion and money, are not inherently taboo, but they can cause acute discomfort because people disagree so vehemently. Many of these stories are about the spectrum of constrained, convoluted feeling that runs from awkwardness through embarrassment to shame.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:

Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who has published twelve books of fiction, drama and literary history. Born in Dublin in 1969, she grew up in Ireland before spending eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature. She moved to London, Ontario, in Canada, in 1998, and lives there with her partner and child.

Her fiction includes two novels set in contemporary Ireland, Stir-Fry

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