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In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the... read more
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Characters edit
- Fiona: Add a description of this character.
- Lorna
- Lewis
- Johanna Parry
- Brendan
- Alfrida
- Aubrey
- Mrs. Vorguilla
- Grant
- Neal
- Polly
- Mike
- Nina
- Lionel
- Pierre
- Queenie
- Mr. Mccauley
- Meriel
- Sabitha
- Kristy
- Edith
- Helen
- Stan
- Johnston
- Ken Boudreau
- Jonas
- Muriel
- Andrew
- Margaret
- Matt
- Bill
- Leslie
- Marian
- Marcelle
- Mrs. Willets
- Daniel
- Chrissy
- Paul Gibbings
- Elizabeth
- Gregory
First Sentence edit
Years ago, before the trains stopped running on so many of the branch lines, a woman with a high, freckled forehead and a frizz of reddish hair came into the railway station and inquired about shipping furniture.
Table of Contents edit
1. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
2. Floating Bridge
3. Family Furnishings
4. Comfort
5. Nettles
6. Post and Beam
7. What is Remembered
8. Queenie
9. The Bear Came Over the Mountain
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alice Munro (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0375413006
Page Count: 236
Publisher: Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0375413006
Page Count: 236
Awards edit
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (2002: Caribbean and Canada)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 2001: Fiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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