Women talking a novel
(Book Club Set)
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Published
Toronto : Random House, 2019.
Format
Book Club Set
ISBN
9780735273979, 0735273979
Physical Desc
8 copies (including 1 large print) + discussion guide
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Book Club Set - To be shelved | BOOK CLUB SET TOEWS | On Shelf |
Book Club Set - To be shelved | BOOK CLUB SET TOEWS | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Barns -- Fiction.
Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Debates and debating -- Fiction.
Decision making -- Fiction.
Mennonite women -- Fiction.
Mennonites -- Fiction.
Outcasts -- Fiction.
Patriarchy -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Fiction.
Religious communities -- Fiction.
Sex crimes -- Fiction.
Violence against women -- Fiction.
Women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Debates and debating -- Fiction.
Decision making -- Fiction.
Mennonite women -- Fiction.
Mennonites -- Fiction.
Outcasts -- Fiction.
Patriarchy -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Fiction.
Religious communities -- Fiction.
Sex crimes -- Fiction.
Violence against women -- Fiction.
Women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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Published
Toronto : Random House, 2019.
Language
English
ISBN
9780735273979, 0735273979
Notes
Description
The sun rises on a quiet June morning in 2009. August Epp sits alone in the hayloft of a barn, anxiously bent over his notebook. He writes quickly, aware that his solitude will soon be broken. Eight women--ordinary grandmothers, mothers and teenagers; yet to August, each one extraordinary-- will climb the ladder into the loft, and the day's true task will begin. This task will be both simple and subversive: August, like the women, is a traditional Mennonite, and he has been asked to record a secret conversation. Thus begins Miriam Toews' spellbinding novel. Gradually, as we hear the women's vivid voices console, tease, admonish, regale and debate each other, we piece together the reason for the gathering: they have forty-eight hours to make a life-altering choice on behalf of all the women and children in the colony. And like a vast night sky coming into view behind the bright sparks of their voices, we learn of the devastating events that have led to this moment. Acerbic, funny, tender, sorrowful and wise, Women Talking is composed of equal parts humane love and deep anger. It is award-winning writer Miriam Toews' most astonishing novel to date, containing within its two short days and hayloft setting an expansive, timeless universe of thinking and feeling about women--and men--in our contemporary world--Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Toews, M. (2019). Women talking: a novel . Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Toews, Miriam, 1964-. 2019. Women Talking: A Novel. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Toews, Miriam, 1964-. Women Talking: A Novel Random House, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Toews, Miriam. Women Talking: A Novel Random House, 2019.
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