Swing Low: A Life - Brossura

Toews, Miriam

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ISBN 10: 0062070169 ISBN 13: 9780062070166

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2011

Riassunto

“Audacious, original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of Swing Low.” —Globe and Mail (Canada)

Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight, Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring and deeply affecting memoir of her father’s struggle with manic depression in a small Mennonite community in rural Canada. Personal and touching, a stirring counterpart to her novel IrmaVoth and reminiscent of works by Susan Cheever, Gail Caldwell, Mary Karr, and Alexandra Styron, Swing Low is an elegiac ode to a difficult life by an author drawing from the deepest well of insight,craft, and emotion.

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Recensione:

“...Toews offers a touching memoir.” (Publishers Weekly)

“The magic of Swing Low is that Toews makes a life that looked ordinary, even grindingly so, seem exalted.” (Maria Russo, New York Times Book Review)

L'autore:

Miriam Toews was born in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published five novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards in Canada, including the Governor General’s Literary Award (for A Complicated Kindness) and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (for The Flying Troutmans). In 2010 she received the prestigious Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Irma Voth is Toews’s most recent novel. She lives in Toronto.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0062070169
• ISBN 13: 9780062070166
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 228