A boy of good breeding a novel
A charming tale of small town life with very eccentric characters. Over the course of one momentous summer an entire town will discover how to mend rifts, find love and solve a few mysteries.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Counterpoint,
2006.
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| Summary: | A charming tale of small town life with very eccentric characters. Over the course of one momentous summer an entire town will discover how to mend rifts, find love and solve a few mysteries. |
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| Physical Description: | 237 p. |
| ISBN: | 9781582433400 1582433402 |
| Author Notes: | Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in Canada. She is best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows. She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work. She is also a two-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Toews had a leading role in the feature film Silent Light, written and directed by Mexican filmmaker, Carlos Reygadas and winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize, an experience that influenced her fifth novel, Irma Voth. (Bowker Author Biography) |
