- Brothers and sisters, Parent and adult child, Remarried people, Fiction
"For the Chambers family of Stonebrook, Ontario, the year 1949 is filled with promise. The post-war boom and hope for the future color every facet of life: for Bill, a hardware store manager, his wife, Sylvia, and their three young children, Patrick, Paul and Daphne, possibilities seem limitless.".
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Bonnie Burnard
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- HarperFlamingoCanada, H. Holt, Phyllis Bruce Books Perennial
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780006485261
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“FED BY THE ROLLING FIELDS and the running miles of shallow country ditches to the east of town, Stonebrook Creek approached the town aslant, cutting down through Livingston's gully, then flowing past the burning mounds of garbage at the dump, a ripe, evolving depth of trash that came alive at night with the industrious plunder of raccoons, an afternoon home-away-from-home for the town's mostly good-natured dogs.”
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