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"Beautiful-- moving." --The Globe and Mail
"Like Fall on Your Knees ... [this is] the real thing, a finely crafted, genuinely moving novel ... [Hannah] makes us care about his lonely characters and care as much as they do about the smallest, simplest pleasures...." --Quill & Quire
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In a sedate New Brunswick town, a dozen lives collide unexpectedly. From acclaimed playwright Don Hannah comes Canada's version of the Southern novel--a bountiful story of skewed family relationships and thwarted love, told with tenderness, humanity and delicious hilarity.
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1862073120
- ISBN 13 9781862073128
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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