No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey

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Red Deer College Press, 1998 - Fiction - 260 pages
Arachne Manteia is a road rider, a traveling sales rep who drives a classic Mercedes and peddles women's underwear for a living. From her working class childhood to her comfortable adult life, Arachne refuses the conventional and embraces whatever adventure fate throws in her path.

A rogue sales rep with a man in every town, she lures each into her web of desire. All of them she claims as part of her never-ending journey, which promises fulfillment but offers no map for her longing. Always ready to fight and flee, Arachne Manteia is the quintessential picara, skillfully reckless, frighteningly irresistible, ready to go to the edge of the mappable world and beyond.

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No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey
Aritha Van Herk
Snippet view - 1986
No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey
Aritha Van Herk
Snippet view - 1986

About the author (1998)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleNo Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey
AuthorAritha Van Herk
PublisherRed Deer College Press, 1998
ISBN0889951837, 9780889951839
Length260 pages
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Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
  
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