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Lives of girls and women / Alice Munro.

by Munro, Alice, 1931-2024-

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New American Library (Canada), [1974], c1971.

Young women -- Fiction.

Rural families -- Fiction.

Ontario -- Fiction.

9780735234659
9780143191155
0451147332 (pbk.)
0451153529
0140121617
0140251618 (Penguin pbk.)
0140241671 (Penguin pbk.,1996)
9780143051442 (2005 Penguin modern classics trade pbk.)
014305144X (2005 Penguin modern classics trade pbk.)

1 v. (various pagings)

This record reflects various editions with different pagings.

[Author is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature].

"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."--Inside jacket.

Bildungsromans.

Canadian fiction.

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