Penguin Celebrations - Lives of Girls and Women - Softcover

Munro, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143171534 ISBN 13: 9780143171539

Publisher: Penguin Canada, 2009

Synopsis

Lives of Girls and Women is the intensely readable, touching, and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through an uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience.

As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her mother, endures the humiliation of her body's insistent desires, and tries desperately to fall in love, she grapples with the crises that mark the passage to womanhood.

Penguin Group (Canada) has published this edition of Lives of Girls and Women in a traditional Penguin design in celebration of being named 2008 Publisher of the Year.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0143171534
• ISBN 13: 9780143171539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248