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Alice Munro's first collection of linked stories traces Del Jordan's uneasy passage through adolescence. Her mother believes that sometime soon women will stop seeing themselves in terms of men. Del, humiliated by her body's insistent desires and trying desperately to fall in love, isn't so sure. Munro's eye for the telling detail makes Lives of Girls and Women among the most vivid accounts of adolescence in Canadian literature.
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The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that 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.
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.
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill Ryerson
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0070929327
- ISBN 13 9780070929326
- BindingLoose Leaf
- Number of pages254
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Inscribed by Author. 22cm x 14.5cm. [x], 254 pages. White cloth, yellow lettering, pictorial jacket. Female coming of age story by the Nobel Prize winning author based in Munro's native Ontario. The Canadian First, inscribed by Munro, For Bill. Cloth tanned and lightly soiled. Creasing to spine. Very small soil to free endpaper, interior otherwise clean. Small chips and tears to jacket edges, a small watermark at spine tail visible on verso. Shipped Weight: .6 kilos. Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0070929327. ISBN/EAN: 9780070929326. Seller Inventory # 0033740
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. Second printing. Tight binding. No written inscriptions, tears, chips or creases to pages. Gift inscription signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has some edge wear, mainly at edge of spine and some surface rubbing. A 0.5" tear on front panel near head of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 254 pp. Seller Inventory # 5057
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 254 p. A superb copy. Tinge of toning to the very edges of the book. Very difficult to find in this condition. S13. Seller Inventory # 000385
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing of the first Canadian hardcover edition of the author's 2nd book and only novel. LAID-IN is a 3 x 4 inch bookplate SIGNED by the late Alice Munro with a black ballpoint pen. The reverse side of the plate is treated with an adhesive activated with moisture. Note to Collectors: maximize the value of a bookplate for you and a future owner by leaving it loose. A pleasing example, the book is bound in yellow cloth. No markings by a previous owner. Minor tanning to the page edges, the heel and crown of the spine and the extreme edges of the boards. The bottom corner of the front board has been bumped. The beginnings of a reading crease at the crown of the spine runs for an inch. Two, tiny rust stains on the front paste down and a small, faint stain on the back board, at the gutter. Excess glue along the bottom edge of the rear paste down affected the bottom edge of the final free endpaper opposite. The jacket is complete and not priced, as issued. The artwork on the front and back panels is well-preserved. A short, unobtrusive horizontal crease along the top and bottom edges of the front panel and a small tea-coloured stain to the front panel at the fore-edge. There is wear, softening and short tears at the heel and crown of the jacket's spine, and color loss due to wear along the outside edges of the spine. One small puncture to the back panel, next to the spine. The top and bottom edges of both panels are sharp. Multiple signed firsts of Munro's story collections are available from this bookseller. Canadian buyer will be charged GST. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 002255
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 254 pages. First edition, first printing. Her 2nd book and her only novel. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, the Man Booker International Prize in 2009, the Giller Prize twice and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction 3 times. Inscribed by Munro on the first sheet. Fine book with a hint of tanning to the top and bottom of the spine in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 40338273865
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