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A Boy of Good Breeding
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Erin Moon
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 19 June 2009
- Run Time
- 9 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
“Tonic for the spirit: a charming, deeply moving, unerringly human story, perfectly shaped and beautifully told.”—The Globe and Mail
From the author of Women Talking—now an Academy Award–winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley
Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute and her daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents 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 1,500. Bringing to life small-town Canada and all its larger-than-life characters, A Boy of Good Breeding is a big-hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you belong.
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Details
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Erin Moon
- Duration
- 9 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 June 2009
- ISBN
- 9781440718762
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award “Tonic for the spirit: a charming, deeply moving, unerringly human story, perfectly shaped and beautifully told.”—The Globe and Mail From the author of Women Talking—now an Academy Award–winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute and her daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents 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 1,500. Bringing to life small-town Canada and all its larger-than-life characters, A Boy of Good Breeding is a big-hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you belong.
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