Summer of My Amazing Luck

Name: Summer of My Amazing Luck
Brand: Faber & Faber
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Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

By Miriam Toews

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''Toews's debut is a tart, affectionate look at welfare mothers...Toews is especially good on the "rollicking, happy, impoverished family" of the projects [and] scathing about the humiliations of poverty.'' New York Times Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother's sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they're pretty happy . . . But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan. Told with Toews's signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer of my Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty. ''[A] picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city... The novel's voice [is] amused, warm, curious, alive on the page.'' The New Yorker

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 240
Release Date:: 2019-07-04
Publication Date:: 2019-07-04
Publisher:: Faber & Faber
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0571345875
ISBN13:: 9780571345878
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 179 g
Height:: 132 cm
Width:: 199 cm
Thickness:: 20 cm

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