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Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd step-mother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she... read more
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“A woman ought to be energetic, practical, clever at making and sewing; she ought to be shrewd, good at bargaining and bossing and seeing through people's pretensions. At the same time she should be naive intellectually, childlike, contemptuous of maps and long words and anything in books, full of charming jumbled notions, superstitions, traditional beliefs.”
Series & Lists edit
This book is in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alice Munro (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1979
ISBN: 0394506820
Page Count: 210
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1979
ISBN: 0394506820
Page Count: 210
Awards edit
- Man Booker Prize (Finalist, 1980, Shortlisted)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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