The Beggar Maid
Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd step-mother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid.
Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd step-mother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099458357 (0099458357)
Publish date: May 6th 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 210
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Female Authors,
Short Stories,
Canada,
Nobel Prize,
Canadian Literature,
Short Story Collection
Quite extraordinary.
This is my first Alice Munro, and it clearly deserves its literary accolades. It’s a short story collection that follows the same characters more or less chronologically through their lives: a girl and later woman named Rose, and her stepmother, Flo. The characters are certainly believable, and I be...
I decided to read a work by Alice Munro purely because she won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. I came in with modest expectations, since there are many past winners who I'm no admirer of. Sadly, even those were not met. The book follows Rose, a girl growing up in severe poverty in the s...
Munro is a fabulous storyteller. Her characters and language are absolutely radiant. I really loved this collection/novel and look forward to reading more of her work.
Rating: 2* of fiveI hate Flo, and dislike Rose, and can think of no possible reason for anyone to read more than the Pearl Rule requires or the first three stories, whichever comes first in your edition.Lovely, lovely sentences telling deadly little quotidian stories about dreary, slatternly people....
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