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Stories of Flo and Rose
Alice Munro
ISBN: 9780099458357
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
Edition: New edition
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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 married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid.
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 married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her...
| ISBN | 0099458357 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780099458357 (What's this?) | | Pages | 224 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Weight (grammes) | 159 | | Imprint | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 199 | | Publication date | 06 May 2004 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | PR9199.3.M | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General |
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" Whether Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid is a collection of stories or a new kind of novel I'm not quite sure, but whatever it is, it's wonderful. The psychological precision...is a delight, and the startling twists -- the unexpected leaps in time, the transformation of familiar characters -- they make the book what books ought to be, a little wild, a little mysterious." -- John Gardner In this exhilarating series of interweaving stories, Alice Munro re-creates the evolving bond -- one that is both constricting and empowering -- between two women in the coupe of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow-in spite of Flo's ridicule and ghastly warnings -- leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world. " The stories are absolutely wonderful-every word she writes is interesting." -- Alice Adams " The best stories of the year." -- "The Nation"  Be the first to write a customer review
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