Summer of My Amazing Luck
€11.25
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780571345878 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miriam Toews |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.200 |
| Publishing Date | 04/07/2019 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €10.61 |
| Tax | €0.64 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €11.25 |
| Availability | 5 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
''Toews’s debut is a tart, affectionate look at welfare mothers...Toews is especially good on the “rollicking, happy, impoverished family” of the projects [and] scathing about the humiliations of poverty.'' New York Times
Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother’s sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they’re pretty happy . . . But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan.
Told with Toews’s signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer of my Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty.
''[A] picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city... The novel’s voice [is] amused, warm, curious, alive on the page.'' The New Yorker