All My Puny Sorrows
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All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
A New York Times 2015 Holiday Gift Guide selection.
Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's is an enviable life (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close?raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her own life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart, how to keep her own heart from breaking, and what it means to love someone who wants to die. All My Puny Sorrows is the latest novel from Miriam Toews, one of Canada's most beloved authors not only because her work is rich with deep human feeling and compassion, but because her observations are knife-sharp and her books wickedly funny. And this is Toews at her finest: a story that is as much comedy as it is tragedy, a goodbye grin from the friend who taught you how to live.
Toews, Miriam: -
Miriam Toews was born in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published five novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards in Canada, including the Governor General's Literary Award (for A Complicated Kindness) and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (for The Flying Troutmans). In 2010 she received the prestigious Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Irma Voth is Toews's most recent novel. She lives in Toronto.
| SKU | CIN1940450276G |
| ISBN 13 | 9781940450278 |
| ISBN 10 | 1940450276 |
| Title | All My Puny Sorrows |
| Author | Miriam Toews |
| Condition | Good |
| Publisher | McSweeney's |
| Year published | 2014-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 330 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2015, Commended for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2014 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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