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Blood Spot and other stories, The

Author: Gertrud Strauss  ISBN: 9780620238366

Blood Spot and other stories, The

These narratives, which defy the conventional constraints of the short story, employing a range of modes and styles to reflect the sensibility of their protagonists, portray women at different moments of discovery or development. Childhood, girlhood, wifehood, motherhood – what lies beneath these states is explored, both delicately and doggedly.

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Gertrud Strauss’s finely crafted stories offer a unique perspective on the volatile and hybrid character of South Africa, past and present. These narratives, which defy the conventional constraints of the short story, employing a range of modes and styles to reflect the sensibility of their protagonists, portray women at different moments of discovery or development.

Childhood, girlhood, wifehood, motherhood – what lies beneath these states is explored, both delicately and doggedly.

And in the background the nature of the society changes, throwing up new guilts, new problems, new discoveries. These stories are spread over forty years or so of South African experience, and a variety of settings.

Short stories with a South African background.

“Strauss’s writing defies the conventions of form while maintaining a perfectly ordinary, everyday tone in which to deliver inner realities, moral issues, the nuances of personal relationships.”

Jane Rosenthal in the Mail &Guardian

  • Publication Date 1999
  • Author Gertrud Strauss
  • Size A5
  • ISBN 10 0-620-23836-4
  • ISBN 13 978-0-620-23836-6
  • Number of Pages 248
  • Cover Type Paperback

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