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Restlessness Paperback - 2005

by Aritha Van Herk


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Desperate to find a home, a restless, wandering woman determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts him to murder her, by her choice and on her terms

Restlessness chronicles their meeting and its unexpected story and outcome In an effort to dissuade the woman from death, her killer elicits from her stories about her travels

In this reversal of Sheherazade, who saves her life through a continuous story, Restlessness becomes a story about how to avoid story, a travel book about how to evade travel, a manual for how to stay put Breathtaking in the tension of its incipient murder, this novel will not permit the reader to break the thread of watching and waiting that both death and travel conjure

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  • Title Restlessness
  • Author Aritha Van Herk
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 193
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Red Deer Press, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Date September 29, 2005
  • ISBN 9780889951853 / 0889951853
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.54 x 5.13 x 0.62 in (19.15 x 13.03 x 1.57 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Women - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98213286
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Aritha van Herk was born in central Alberta, and studied at the University of Alberta She first rose to international literary prominence with the publication of Judith, which received the Seal First Novel Award and which was published in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Professor who teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Calgary

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