Balancing on the Edge of the World Paperback / softback
by Elizabeth Baines
Paperback / softback
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These are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it.
A small boy struggles with his parents' divorce, a doctor fails to understand the limits of his medical power, a wronged wife finds a uniquely powerful way to wreak revenge.
Sometimes satirical, sometimes innovative and lyrical, the stories home in on those moments when power can spill into powerlessness: the split-second when a self-satisfied teenager is held at knifepoint by muggers, the trip to the woods with the 'poor kids' which teaches a small girl she's no better than them.
They chart the opposite moments when people wrest back power: a daughter rebels against her violent father, a struggling writer decides to expose a con man arts worker, a little girl who wishes her lost father would come back finds she has magic powers. But it's a slippery thing, power, and these vivid, wry stories spring surprises: for nothing, in the end, is ever quite what it seems.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages, No
- Publisher:Salt Publishing
- Publication Date:01/10/2007
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- ISBN:9781844713943
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages, No
- Publisher:Salt Publishing
- Publication Date:01/10/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781844713943