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Toews, Miriam, 1964-
Subjects
Kleinstadt -- Roman
Bürokratisches Handeln -- Roman
Mayors -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction
Cities and towns -- Canada -- Fiction
Manitoba -- Fiction.
Kanada -- Roman
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Boy of good breeding...
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Toews, Miriam, 1964-
Kleinstadt -- Roman
Bürokratisches Handeln -- Roman
Mayors -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction
Cities and towns -- Canada -- Fiction
Manitoba -- Fiction.
Kanada -- Roman
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Kleinstadtknatsch [
German
] : roman /
Miriam
Toews
; aus dem Englischen von Christiane Buchner.
by
Toews
,
Miriam
,
1964-
Berlin Verlag, c2007.
Call #:
MLGER FICTION TOE
Subjects
Kleinstadt -- Roman
Bürokratisches Handeln -- Roman
Mayors -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction
Cities and towns -- Canada -- Fiction
Manitoba -- Fiction.
Kanada -- Roman
ISBN:
9783827007315 (hc)
3827007313 (hc)
Uniform title:
Boy
of
good
breeding
.
German
German
Alternate title:
Übersetzung von: A
Boy
of
Good
Breeding
.
Edition:
Deutsche ausgabe
Description:
269 S. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Die orginalaugabe erschien 1998 unter dem Titel A
Boy
of
Good
Breeding
bei Stoddart Publishing, Toronto."
Übersetzung von: A
Boy
of
Good
Breeding
.
Text in Deutsch.
Übersetzt aus dem Englischen.
Summary:
"
Miriam
Toews
unnachahmlicher Witz zeichnet auch ihren neuen Roman aus, in dem d ie eigenwilligen Bewohner einer kanadischen Kleinstadt ihrem Bürgermeister das Leben zur Hölle machen - schlicht indem sie leben, sterben und sich vermehren, denn das passt nicht in seine ehrgeizigen Plne."--Back cover
"A delightfully funny and charming novel about growing up, getting old, and falling in love in a small town. Life in Winnipeg didn't go as planned for Knute Corea-McCloud and her daughter, Summer Feelin'. But moving back in with her parents in Algren, Manitoba, and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own challenges: Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea's attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister-even if that means keeping the town's population at an even 1500. It's not an easy task, with citizens threatening to leave, Summer Feelin's father threatening to move back, Hosea's lady friend looking to move in, and one Algrenian on the verge of giving birth-to twins or possibly triplets. Hosea's search for his own roots takes us back to Algren's days as an outpost prairie town, when his mother, Euphemia, was seduced by a mysterious cowboy. Discovering the true identity of that cowboy fuels Hosea's many obsessions and just might reveal whether he is, indeed, a
boy
of
good
breeding
. "--English edition
Genre:
Canadian fiction.
German
language materials
English fiction -- Translations into
German
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Sackville Public Library
Multilingual German
FICTION TOE
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