by Miriam Toews · Faber And Faber Ltd. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571230532
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«A Boy of Good Breeding» is the contemporary fiction novel by Miriam Toews, published by Faber And Faber Ltd. in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Knute, a twenty-four-year-old single mother, returns to Algren with her daughter to care for her father. Mayor Hosea Funk tries to keep the town under 1,500 residents so the prime minister will visit it as the smallest in Canada, but births and returning families complicate matters. A warm comedy about reunions and rural life.
Originally published in 1998, winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. The action takes place in Algren (Manitoba, Canada).
For those who enjoy humorous novels with quirky characters and portraits of rural and community life in Canada.
Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer and author of ten books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
