The Tin Flute
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780771093883 (0771093888)
Publish date: June 2nd 2009
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
France,
Womens,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
Dickens is well known for his shining his light on the working class of London. But Gabrielle Roy did the same for the working class of Montreal. The drawback with Dickens is that he never bothered or even thought about women; perhaps because she was a woman Roy does. The focus of the story is on th...
Subject to change since I read that as a teenager and it's in my to re-read pile to see that I was probably too young to enjoy it.
Another book for looking at Canadian history through a literary lens.
21 years ago
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