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A good house

A runaway #1 bestseller in Canada, this richly layered first novel tells the story of the intricacies and rituals that shape a family's life over three generations A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chambers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future colors every facet of life: possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife, Sylvia, and their three children. In the fifty years that follow, the possibilities narrow into lives, etched by character, fate, and circumstance. Sylvia's untimely death marks her family indelibly but in ways only time will reveal. Paul's perfect marriage yields an imperfect child. Daphne unabashedly follows an unconventional path, while Patrick discovers that his happiness requires a series of compromises. Bill confronts the onset of old age less gracefully than anticipated, and throughout, his second wife, Margaret, remains, surprisingly, the family anchor. With her remarkable ability to probe the hidden, often disturbing landscapes of love and to illuminate the complexities of human experience, Bonnie Burnard brings to her deceptively simple narrative a clarity that is both moving and profound.

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  • "The Chambers family of Ontario struggles through love, death and change from 1949 to the present."
  • "A runaway #1 bestseller in Canada, this richly layered first novel tells the story of the intricacies and rituals that shape a family's life over three generations A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chambers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future colors every facet of life: possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife, Sylvia, and their three children. In the fifty years that follow, the possibilities narrow into lives, etched by character, fate, and circumstance. Sylvia's untimely death marks her family indelibly but in ways only time will reveal. Paul's perfect marriage yields an imperfect child. Daphne unabashedly follows an unconventional path, while Patrick discovers that his happiness requires a series of compromises. Bill confronts the onset of old age less gracefully than anticipated, and throughout, his second wife, Margaret, remains, surprisingly, the family anchor. With her remarkable ability to probe the hidden, often disturbing landscapes of love and to illuminate the complexities of human experience, Bonnie Burnard brings to her deceptively simple narrative a clarity that is both moving and profound."@en
  • "A novel about three generations of ordinary smalltown people form 1950-1990. Burnard's sensitivity to emotional nuances creates a rich portrait of ordinary life."
  • "Bill Chambers has come home from the second World War with several fingers of his right hand missing but with his will to restore his family life intact. He wants the best for his wife, Sylvia, and his children, Patrick, Paul and Daphne, and with his steady job at the hardware store, the future stretches out before him. So opens Bonnie Burnard's brilliant, superbly crafted novel about three generations of an ordinary small-town family from the 1950s to the 1990s. As the family members spread out from their community into the larger world, the bonds deepen, widen and sometimes fray. Loyalties are tested by time and chance, people resort to necessary, self-preserving lies, and love creates its own snares."@en
  • "Raconte la vie d'une famille canadienne, des années 50 aux années 90, sur trois générations. A la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Bill Chambers retrouve une vie paisible et heureuse, entouré de sa femme Sylvia et de ses trois enfants, jusqu'à ce que la mort brutale de Sylvia vienne bouleverser ce bonheur et mettre à rude épreuve le destin de chacun des membres de la famille. Premier roman."

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Roman canadien de langue anglaise"

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  • "Una bona casa"
  • "Casa de família"
  • "Una buena casa"
  • "A good house ;Bonnie Burnard"
  • "Dobry dom"
  • "Dobry dom"@pl
  • "La maison au long cours : roman"
  • "Een goed huis"
  • "A good house"@en
  • "A good house"
  • "To spiti tōn anemōn"
  • "Una Bona casa"@ca
  • "Hyvästä kodista"@fi
  • "Hea maja"
  • "Ein ganzes Leben : Roman"
  • "A Good House"
  • "Una Casa buena"
  • "Una casa buena"@es
  • "Una casa buena"

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