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Shy, clever, and ambitious, Rose grows up in the poor part of town, leaves home for a university education and a career, and after an unsuccessful marriage, returns home to make peace with her town and her practical, shrewd stepmother, Flo
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es of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. the other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.
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- PublisherRandom House Inc
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0394506820
- ISBN 13 9780394506821
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages210
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979. VERY GOOD hardcover book in VERY GOOD mylar-protected dust-jacket. Light chipping at DJ's extremities. two faded stains on DJ's rear panel. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. First US Edition, First Printing. Seller Inventory # 2304010005
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Edward Burne-Jones (cover) (illustrator). SUBTITLED : ` Stories of flo and Rose '. These 210 pages present ten inter-woven stories. The first of which is Royal Beatings. Flo is the (bitter) stepmother to Rose. Author's fourth work. Read more about : King Cophetua, Hantratty Ontario, Jelly Smoth, radio plays, boggy places, and wide creaky floorboards. UNillustrated. Cond : Boards are cream coloured with a white spine band. White end-papers. D.J. is brown with white lettering. Cover art is courtesy of a London museum. Volume is tight, bright, square and clean. No names nor marks. D.J. has tiny points of wear. Collectible. QUote (p. 80) : " Merchantile Empire was a rather grand way of putting it. Patrick's family owned a chain of department stores in British Columbia. All Patrick had said to Rose was that his father owned some stores. When she said ._._._. . " Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 014108
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