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A Bird in the House

Penguin Modern Classics Edition

By Margaret Laurence

By Margaret Laurence

By Margaret Laurence
Afterword by Isabel Huggan

By Margaret Laurence
Afterword by Isabel Huggan

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Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction

Paperback $14.95

May 16, 2017 | ISBN 9780735252820

Ebook $9.99

Jan 26, 2010 | ISBN 9780771046254

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    About A Bird in the House

    One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. 

    In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod–a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl’s growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving whole: poignant, compassionate, and profound in emotional impact.
         In this fourth book of the five-volume Manawaka series, Vanessa MacLeod takes her rightful place alongside the other unforgettable heroines of Manawaka: Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel, Rachel Cameron in A Jest of God, Stacey MacAindra inThe Fire-Dwellers, and Morag Gunn in The Diviners.

    About A Bird in the House

    One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up.

    In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod – a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl’s growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving whole: poignant, compassionate, and profound in emotional impact.

    In this fourth book of the five-volume Manawaka series, Vanessa MacLeod takes her rightful place alongside the other unforgettable heroines of Manawaka: Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel, Rachel Cameron in A Jest of God, Stacey MacAindra in The Fire-Dwellers, and Morag Gunn in The Diviners.

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    The Prophet's Camel Bell
    The Tomorrow-Tamer
    This Side Jordan
    A Jest of God
    The Diviners
    See all books by Margaret Laurence

    About Margaret Laurence

    Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen.From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in… More about Margaret Laurence

    About Margaret Laurence

    Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen.From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in… More about Margaret Laurence

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by McClelland & Stewart
    May 16, 2017 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780735252820

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by New Canadian Library
    Jan 26, 2010 | 200 Pages | ISBN 9780771046254

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    Table Of Contents

    One The Sound of the Singing
    Two To Set Our House in Order
    Three The Mask of the Bear
    Four A Bird in the House
    Five The Loons
    Six Horses of the Night
    Seven The Half-Husky
    Eight Jericho’s Brick Battlements
     
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