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Barbara Gowdy Falling Angels
Harper 1989 0006475086 / 9780006475088 Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, no spine or cover creases Remainder mark some light cover edge wear() The angels of Barbara Gowdy's grim first novel are an alcoholic housewife who dropped her first baby over Niagara Falls and Norma, Lou, and Sandy, the three dysfunctional daughters who came later. Presaged by another fatal drop (this time from a suburban roof), Falling Angels spirals back in time to the darkest scenes in the daughters' bizarre childhood. For example, Christmas 1959: the day their obnoxious cousin Mary Jane chose to share a newspaper clipping about the suspicious death of the brother they never knew they had. Or Disneyland 1961: the trip they never took because their violent, lunatic father insisted that they spend their two-week holiday in a homemade bomb shelter in the backyard instead. Twisted yet poignant, Falling Angels reveals the same fascination with the grotesque that fuels Gowdy's later fiction. Lou's encounter with the neighbourhood psycho boy (who st ID: mon0000031727"
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15.63 USD
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Barbara Gowdy Falling Angels
Bloomsbury 1991 0747507082 / 9780747507086 Hardcover Like New
"First British Edition of the 1989 Somerville House First Edition, light rubbing to extremities() The angels of Barbara Gowdy's grim first novel are an alcoholic housewife who dropped her first baby over Niagara Falls and Norma, Lou, and Sandy, the three dysfunctional daughters who came later. Presaged by another fatal drop (this time from a suburban roof), Falling Angels spirals back in time to the darkest scenes in the daughters' bizarre childhood. For example, Christmas 1959: the day their obnoxious cousin Mary Jane chose to share a newspaper clipping about the suspicious death of the brother they never knew they had. Or Disneyland 1961: the trip they never took because their violent, lunatic father insisted that they spend their two-week holiday in a homemade bomb shelter in the backyard instead. Twisted yet poignant, Falling Angels reveals the same fascination with the grotesque that fuels Gowdy's later fiction. Lou's encounter with the neighbourhood psycho boy (who sticks a p ID: mon0000115834"
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89.35 USD
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"Barbara, Gowdy" Falling Angels
1989 0006485715 / 9780006485711 Hardcover Good
"Paperback, Good, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine creases: back cover (and corresponding pages) has some light bend to the top right-hand corner. The angels of Barbara Gowdy's grim first novel are an alcoholic housewife who dropped her first baby over Niagara Falls and Norma, Lou, and Sandy, the three dysfunctional daughters who came later. Presaged by another fatal drop (this time from a suburban roof) , Falling Angels spirals back in time to the darkest scenes in the daughters' bizarre childhood. For example, Christmas 1959: the day their obnoxious cousin Mary Jane chose to share a newspaper clipping about the suspicious death of the brother they never knew they had. Or Disneyland 1961: the trip they never took because their violent, lunatic father insisted that they spend their two-week holiday in a homemade bomb shelter in the backyard instead. Twisted yet poignant, Falling Angels reveals the same fascination with the grotesque that fuels Gowdy's later fiction. Lou's encounte... ID: mon0000015750"
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9.07 USD
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Barbara Gowdy Mister Sandman
Steerforth Press 1997 1883642337 / 9781883642334 Hardcover Very Good
"clean, tight, unmarked,() Presents the emotional, inspirational story of a Jane Canary, the youngest daughter in her family, a young girl who does not grow or speak but who can play the piano like Mozart, and the deep, dark secret she holds. IP. ID: mon0000114863"
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Barbara Gowdy Mister Sandman: A novel
Somerville House Pub 1995 1895897548 / 9781895897548 Loose Leaf Very Good
"'() One of the most audacious and talked-about novels of the season, ''Mister Sandman'' is set in Toronto in the mid-1950s and concerns the Canary family: their immoderate passions and eccentricities and their secret lives .'''' ID: mon0000082570"
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Barbara Gowdy The Romantic
HarperFlamingo Canada 2003 0002005050 / 9780002005050 Hardcover Very Good
"clean, tight, unmarked, dust jacket has some edge handling() How do you love someone who sits, smiling, at the edge of oblivion? Award-winning Canadian writer Barbara Gowdy unravels a romance, and the idea of romance, in this spry, witty, agile novel full of all the species of love. Louise Kirk falls in love. She's 10, lives in a cosy, unremarkable suburban home, but, remarkably, has lost a mother already. Or, rather, her chic, sharp mother has disappeared. So, Louise, lonely and steeped in complicated yearnings, decides to fall in love. Furiously. First, she falls in love with her magnificent new neighbour, the operatic and exotic Mrs Richter. Then, within the year, she falls for Mrs Richter's brilliant son Abel. Distracting him from his attentive study of everything around him -- the constellations, the moths, the music -- proves quite a struggle. But before long Abel finds he loves Louise 'too much'. A dozen years later, Abel is gone and Louise is devastated. This is the unrave ID: mon0000083892"
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Barbara Gowdy The Romantic
HarperCollins Canada 2007 0006474993 / 9780006474999 Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases, light edge wear, remainder mark ID: mon0000034307"
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Barbara Gowdy The Romantic
HarperFlamingo Canada 2003 0002005050 / 9780002005050 Hardcover New
"Brand New with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket)Harper Flamingo, Toronto, 2003, First Edition.() How do you love someone who sits, smiling, at the edge of oblivion? Award-winning Canadian writer Barbara Gowdy unravels a romance, and the idea of romance, in this spry, witty, agile novel full of all the species of love. Louise Kirk falls in love. She's 10, lives in a cosy, unremarkable suburban home, but, remarkably, has lost a mother already. Or, rather, her chic, sharp mother has disappeared. So, Louise, lonely and steeped in complicated yearnings, decides to fall in love. Furiously. First, she falls in love with her magnificent new neighbour, the operatic and exotic Mrs Richter. Then, within the year, she falls for Mrs Richter's brilliant son Abel. Distracting him from his attentive study of everything around him -- the constellations, the moths, the music -- proves quite a struggle. But before long Abel finds he loves Louise 'too much'. A dozen ye ID: mon0000115232"
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Barbara Gowdy We So Seldom Look On Love
Harper 2007 000647523X / 9780006475231 Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, no spine or cover creses, clean, tight, remainder mark, some light cover edge wear.() From the author of the blockbuster Mister Sandman comes a gathering of unusual characters captured in the outrageous and humorous situations for which Barbara Gowdy has become famous. Teasing the taboos, Gowdy creates a marriage dialogue between a woman and her transsexual fiancé, who she thought was a man, and litigation between Samuel and Simon who share the same two-headed body. She peoples her stories with Siamese twins, a necrophile, and a pathetically lonely exhibitionist. And she brilliantly illustrates how uncomfortably close a connection comedy has to human suffering. The title story has been adapted into a movie called ID: mon0000036941"
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15.63 USD
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Barbara Gowdy White Bone
Harpercollins 1998 0002243954 / 9780002243957 Hardcover New
"First Edition, New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket), ID: mon0000136218"
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