Isabel Huggan

Belonging (eBook, ePUB)

Home Away from Home

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The long-awaited new book from the acclaimed short story writer, author of The Elizabeth Stories and You Never Know. Belonging is pure pleasure to read -- entertaining, beautifully written, laced with gentle humour and perceptive insights. Shifting from memoir to fiction, it focuses on the commonplace experiences underlying our lives that are the true basis for storytelling. At the book's core is Isabel Huggan's old house in rural France, from where she contemplates the real meaning of "home,” and the mysterious manner in which memory gives substance to ordinary things around us. With a light touch, she brings to life the people she has met in her travels from whom valuable lessons have been learned. Isabel Huggan writes with the candour and compassion that made her earlier books so well loved, and here she speaks even more clearly from the heart. Belonging is an intimate conversation between the narrator who needs to examine her life because it has not turned out as she expected, and her readers, who will find their own concerns illuminated in surprising ways. Slowly, a pattern emerges as certain motifs become apparent: happiness, friendship, landscape, language, heartache. As the book draws to a close, readers will understand the fictional character who says, "There is nothing in our lives that doesn't fit.”

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Canada
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307369611
• Artikelnr.: 38212229

Autorenporträt

ISABEL HUGGAN was born in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1943. In the decade following her BA, she worked as a copy editor, teacher, and newspaper reporter. Besides writing short stories, essays, and reviews, over the years she led creative writing workshops in Canada, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the Philippines. Leaving Ottawa in 1987, she lived with her husband in Kenya and the Philippines and finally in France, where their restoration of an old stone house led to her final book Belonging. After the death of her husband in 2011, she opened a Writer's Retreat in her stone barn for individuals looking for a quiet place to write. For twenty years was a mentor for the Humber School for Writers correspondence program, and she has continued to work privately as a manuscript consultant. In 2020 she returned to Canada, and now lives in Orillia, Ontario.