EAN: 9780375707490

LIVES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN - ALICE MUNRO KARTONIE...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013  The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning
author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful  honest book  "autobiographical in form
but not in fact " that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's.  
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm  where her most
frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When
she begins spending more time in town  she is surrounded by women-her mother  an agnostic 
opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers  her mother's boarder  the lusty Fern
Dogherty  and her best friend  Naomi  with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee
of adolescence.   Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex  birth 
and death  Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise 
witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful  moving  and
humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.

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