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A Boy of Good Breeding

Auteur(s): Miriam Toews
Narrateur(s): Susanna Fournier
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From the acclaimed Giller Prize Finalist and Governor General’s Award Winner: a delightfully funny and charming second novel about Canada’s smallest town.

Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute and her daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own challenges: Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea’s attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister — even if that means keeping the town’s population at an even 1500. Bringing to life small-town Canada and all its larger-than-life characters, A Boy of Good Breeding is a big-hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you belong.

©1998 Miriam Toews (P)2018 Vintage Canada Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Drôle Spirituel Sincère

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“A Boy of Good Breeding caught me at the throat, made me laugh and weep with sad-sweet joy…. [The characters] get under your skin, and finally, it seems, into your very blood, where they quicken the heart…. Tonic for the spirit: a charming, deeply moving, unerringly human story, perfectly shaped and beautifully told.” (The Globe and Mail)

"Reading [Toews] is like climbing into a fizzy bath of lunatic humour…. Buried in the mysteries of parenthood, love and death are at least a couple of home truths.” (Toronto Star)

“This is a lovely book; each character is a real person, fully realized…. But you’ll have to read A Boy of Good Breeding for yourself, to be moved by the story’s unfolding to a resolution that promises much; Toews has given us a novel that lets us write her characters’ futures.” (Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal)
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What a fun and creative story. I want to know more about these characters and what happens to them next.

So fun

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I am bubbling with enthusiasm for this story but am afraid to give spoilers. It was well written, great pace, and I couldn't stop listening!!!!

Love the story

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Miriam Toews is the absolute master of supremely quirky yet absolutely believable characters, each one so lovable and laughable. I want more time with these people and the simple, bittersweet ways of Toews’s masterful storytelling. Love.

Warm and laugh out loud funny

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The down of Algren is the smallest town in Canada. To qualify as a town, vs a village you have to have 1500 people, to be a city you need 10, 000 people. To be the smallest town in Canada you would need to have 1500 people, you could not be smaller than that and still be a town.

Hosea is the mayor of Algren and he is on a quest to be the smallest town in Canada so the Prime Minister will visit on Canada day. The town has and interesting cast of characters who all become impacted by this odd quest. The performance is very good, the characters are reasonably quirky that it makes this an interesting, breezy listen. It is smirk worthy vs laugh out loud funny.

Quirky town, interesting characters

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