Description
An exhilarating collection (The New York Times Book Review) of ten blended stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro
The rich texture of its narrative and the authors graceful style make [The Beggar Maid] a considerable Carol Oates, Ms.
In this vibrant series of interweaving stories, Alice Munro recreates the evolving bondone that is both constricting and empoweringbetween two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other peoples airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flos stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehowin spite of Flos ridicule and ghastly warningsleaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.
Author: Alice Munro
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/07/1991
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.35h x 4.89w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780679732716
Language: English
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