Boy of Good Breeding (eBook)

Miriam Toews (Autor)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
256 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-26852-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Meanwhile, Hosea Funk, a friend of Tom's and the mayor of Algren has a lot on his mind. The prime minister has promised to pay a visit to whichever town in Canada has the smallest population. Algren has held this position for some time but recent baby booms and returning families, like Knute, threaten to tip Algren over the magic 1500 . . .

Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness,The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, All My Puny Sorrows and Women Talking and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.

Autor

Miriam Toews grew up in a Mennonite community in Southern Manitoba. She now lives in Winnipeg with her family.

Rezensionen

Toews' characters and plot-turns evoke all the eccentricity you'd expect of small-town living, in a Margaret-Atwood-meets-Toni-Morrison kind of way. Refreshing, funny and loveable, this sweet story warms the heart.

Endearing small-town comedy... encroaching a little on Garrison Keillor's territory with a cast of offbeat characters who awkwardly insist on leading their own lives.

Barbara Trapido meets Northern Exposure in a topsy-turvy blend of farce and clear-eyed commonsense.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.3.2014
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Families • Reunion • small town life
• ISBN-10: 0-571-26852-8 / 0571268528
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-26852-8 / 9780571268528