London: MacMillan. Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author in blue marker on front endpaper. First UK edition. Hard cover published by MacMillan in London in 1970. Dust jacket has the value in pounds on front inner flap. Brown covers with gilt lettering on spine. Spine is cocked some. Pages have slight tanning. Book is in good condition. Dust jacket has darkened some along spine and edges, has some scuffing on back, and has some wear at the corners. DJ has some tanning on inner flaps, and is in good condition. 207 pages, .8 lb.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 207 pages; Signed by Author .

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Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen . From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This Side Jordan , and in her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer . Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, The Prophet’s Camel Bell . Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire-Dwellers , A Bird in the House , and The Diviners . Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children’s books. Her many honours include two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987. From the Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: Inside the Covers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: MSL8042
Title: A Bird in the House
Author: Laurence, Margaret
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good in Good dust jacket
Edition: First Printing
Publisher: MacMillan
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1970
Keywords: Grandfather, Short Stories, Family, Prairies, Death

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