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A Good House
Contributor(s): Burnard, Bonnie (Author)

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ISBN: 0312420323     ISBN-13: 9780312420321
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2001
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Annotation: First-time novelist Bonnie Burnard, pens "A Good House", awarded Canada's Giller Prize in 1999, where she documents an Ontario family over half a century with unadorned, deliberate, and tender sympathy.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Sagas
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001133021
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.85 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - Canadian
- Topical - Family
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 11/02/2001 pg. 69
New York Times 12/23/2001 pg. 16
 
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A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chambers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future color every facet of life: the possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife Sylvia, and their three children.

In the fifty years that follow, the possibilities narrow. Sylvia's untimely death marks her family indelibly but in ways only time will reveal. Paul's perfect marriage yields an imperfect child. Daphne unabashedly follows an unconventional path, while Patrick discovers that his happiness requires a series of compromises. Bill confronts the onset of old age less gracefully than anticipated, and throughout, his second wife, Margaret, remains, surprisingly, the family anchor.

This extraordinarily moving and beautifully crafted first novel was a number one bestseller in Canada where it won one of the country's most prestigious literary awards, the Giller Prize, in 1999.


Contributor Bio(s): Burnard, Bonnie: -

A resident of London, Ontario, Bonnie Burnard is also the author of two award-winning story collections. A Good House is her first book to be published in the United States.


 
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