Author : Elizabeth Baines
Release : 2007
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Balancing on the Edge of the World by : Elizabeth Baines
Download or read book Balancing on the Edge of the World written by Elizabeth Baines. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.