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Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration...
2) The Wards
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The Wards are a working-class Newfoundland family on the verge of upheaval. When a sudden illness throws them together, can they finally figure out how to be close-knit?
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Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the park's eventual closing in 1971.
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Alf Walker works at the textile mill on the Island on the Attawan River. When the mill workers attempt to unionize in the aftermath of a corporate take-over, Alf's actions inadvertently set in motion a series of events that will reverberate far into the future and burden him with an unspoken shame. Some strong language. Descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. 2003.
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