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The Changeling

A Novel

Kate Horsley

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English
Shambhala Publications Inc
15 April 2005
Here, the author of the acclaimed

Confessions of a Pagan Nun

takes us to fourteenth-century Ireland for a strange and luminous tale of the elusive nature of identity and of triumph in adversity.

The Changeling

is the story of Grey, a peasant girl who is raised as a boy, and who, until adolescence, never doubts herself to be male. The revelation of her womanhood marks the beginning of her journey through a succession of changing identities-including son, wife, warrior, and mother-each of which brings its own special wisdom, but none of which, she discovers, can ultimately define her. In the course of her adventurous life, Grey deals with all the challenges of her tumultuous age-from political oppression to corrupt Church hierarchy to the horrors of the Black Death-ultimately finding peace and a kind of redemption by embracing the beautifully impermanent quality of identity that her unusual life has enabled her to understand. (Previously published in hardcover as

The Changeling of Finnistuath .)
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Imprint:   Shambhala Publications Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   482g
ISBN:   9781590301944
ISBN 10:   1590301943
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kate Horsley lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and teaches creative writing at Central New Mexico Community College. A poet as well as a novelist, Horsley has a PhD in American Studies and has published five novels. Her book A Killing in a New Town was the winner of the 1996 Western States Book Award for Fiction.

Reviews for The Changeling: A Novel

&quot; Middlesex in the Middle Ages? Almost. In this complex, intelligent novel . . . Horsley raises thought-provoking questions of religion and identity. Told with rich detail, warmth, and wry wit.&quot;&mdash; Publishers Weekly <br>&quot;An unusual and beautiful story.&quot;&mdash; Library Journal <br>&quot;Horsley's burgeoning following of readers who enjoy witty, passionate novels of ideas should enjoy this one and be stoked for more.&quot;&mdash; Booklist


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