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A Bird In The House
de Laurence Margaret
- Usado
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- First
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Librería
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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New York: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. First American Edition. Cloth. Gold cloth covers with gilt illustrations and titles to the spine. Author's initials, in gilt, on the cover. A very nice copy with a tight binding and a bright, unmarked interior. One word written on the front free end paper. First American Edition February 26, 1970. Slight bow to the right. The DJ is unclipped with light suffing and edgewear , in very good condition. "In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod – a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl’s growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving whole: poignant, compassionate, and profound in emotional impact." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 207 pages; Box 1 .
Sinopsis
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen . From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This Side Jordan , and in her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer . Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, The Prophet’s Camel Bell . Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire-Dwellers , A Bird in the House , and The Diviners . Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children’s books. Her many honours include two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987. From the Paperback edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 9309
- Título
- A Bird In The House
- Autor
- Laurence Margaret
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- First American Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1970
- Palabras clave
- Canadian Authors, Women Authors, Social Life & Customs
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Classics; Culture;
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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