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A Bird in the House
by Laurence, Margaret
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1970. Hardcover. very good. 1st Canadian Edition. 207pp. Octavo. Mustard coloured cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front cover. Some light pencil markings on endpapers. Clean tight text block. Long outer edge of text block untrimmed. In blue illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, with some very light brown spots on back of dust jacket. A lovely copy. very good Signed by the author in blue ink on title page. Included with the book is a flier for 'Spring at University College- 1970" with information about events including a literary lecture by Laurence, who at the time was the writer-in-residence at U of T. The lecture is "on not being a lady novelist". On the back written in pen are extensive notes presumably taken at Laurence's literary lecture. 1970
Synopsis
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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- Aquila Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131834
- Title
- A Bird in the House
- Author
- Laurence, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Can Lit|Canadian Literature|Margaret Laurence|Signed
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- Octavo
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- Tight
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