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Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer
Miriam Toews
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Description for Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer
Paperback.
FROM THE WRITER OF THE OSCAR-WININNG WOMEN TALKING
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood
'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker
'Glorious.' Sarah Moss
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You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.
Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.
Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571370726
SKU
9780571370726
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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About Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews is the author of six bestselling novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, and All My Puny Sorrows, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the ... Read more
Reviews for Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer
'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker 'The last book that made me cry.' JOSHUA FERRIS 'A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.' Glamour