Where Dreams Have Gone

By Harrs Norma and Norma Harrs

Dreams vanish in most of the masterful stories that make up Norma Harrs's new collection. A young Irish girl falls in love with an older married professor and has her first date with heartache; a middle-aged woman attends her niece's wedding and drunkenly surveys the wreck of her own life and love affairs; a young woman admires her kind and beautiful neighbour so much that she is almost drawn into a not so innocent profession ...

Adversity, sometimes disaster, befalls Norma Harrs's characters, but instead of destroying these people, it often miraculously enriches their existence, bringing them a sudden awareness of what had been wrong with their lives and inspiring them to make a fresh start.

Ms. Harrs seamlessly weaves together plot and evocative detail, wildly funny turns of events and inconsolable sadness; her stories' earthy eroticism, their startlingly vivid dialogue and, above all, their breathtakingly original rendering of suffering and joy will remain with the reader long after the final page.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889242763
• ISBN13: 9780889242760
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"