The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
by Alice Munro | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099458357 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0099458357 Global Overview for this book
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As a child Rose had a hard life. Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, she battled incessantly with her practical and shrews step-mother, 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; for him she was his Begger Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her....
'A work og great brillaince and depth.....Munro's power of analysis, of sensations and thoughts, is almost Proustian in its sureness'
NEW STATESMAN
'Wonderful! Whether The Begger Maid is a collection of short stories or a new kind of novel I'm not not quite sure, but whatever it is, it's wonderfil'
John Gardner. author of Grendel
As a child Rose had a hard life. Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, she battled incessantly with her practical and shrews step-mother, 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; for him she was his Begger Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her....
'A work og great brillaince and depth.....Munro's power of analysis, of sensations and thoughts, is almost Proustian in its sureness'
NEW STATESMAN
'Wonderful! Whether The Begger Maid is a collection of short stories or a new kind of novel I'm not not quite sure, but whatever it is, it's wonderfil'
John Gardner. author of Grendel
