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The story of Del Jordan growing up in gossipy and insular Jubilee begins with a frog-catching expedition and ends with a shattered love affair. Between, lies the rich and unforgettable texture of female experience.
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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.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. The author's second book, which is often billed as her first novel. The coming of age story of a young outsider growing up first on the outskirts, and later in the center, of the small, southern Ontario town of Jubilee. Munro (1931-2024) was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling. Light toning along the extremities of the dust jacket; else near fine. Seller Inventory # 79165
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 250 p. 18 cm. Hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has a little discolouration, chip from top front, price clipped front flap. Small white mark on front free endpaper. Former owner's inscription. Signed by author on title page. A short story cycle by Alice Munro, all of the stories chronicling the life of a single character, Del Jordan. Munro's focus is the human condition and relationships seen through the lens of daily life in small town Ontario. Seller Inventory # 157130
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