The eighteen stories in Gabrielle Roy's Street of Riches centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting with gentle irony upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. Acclaimed upon its original publication in French in 1955, this superb collection infuses the authenticity of memoir with the timeliness and ...
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The eighteen stories in Gabrielle Roy's Street of Riches centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting with gentle irony upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. Acclaimed upon its original publication in French in 1955, this superb collection infuses the authenticity of memoir with the timeliness and universality of the best imaginative art. Street of Riches won the Governor General's Award for 1957.
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Very GOOD in NONE jacket. Size: 7x5x0; Clean, unmarked, tight spine and flat pages. A few previously dog-eared pages. Scuffed covers with small bumped corners.
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N.C. Wyeth cover. Near Fine. Book Unread trade paperback, pictorial brown/turquoise cover. Trans. from the French "Rue Deschambault" by Harry Binsse. Author compares to Willa Cather. Remainder mk bottom bottom edge. 246 pgs.
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