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Joan Givner

Auteur de Katherine Anne Porter: a life

16 oeuvres 182 utilisateurs 4 critiques

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Joan Givner spent nearly a quarter-century teaching English Literature at the University of Regina.

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Œuvres de Joan Givner

Katherine Anne Porter: a life (1982) 76 exemplaires
Ellen Fremedon (2004) 32 exemplaires
Half Known Lives (2000) 10 exemplaires
Ellen Fremedon, Volunteer (2007) 8 exemplaires
Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Life (1989) 7 exemplaires
Playing Sarah Bernhardt (2004) 6 exemplaires
Girl Called Tennyson, A (2010) 4 exemplaires
Ellen Fremedon Journalist (2005) 3 exemplaires
The Hills Are Shadows (2014) 1 exemplaire
Unfortunate incidents (1988) 1 exemplaire
In the garden of Henry James (1996) 1 exemplaire

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There is a lot going on in this book. Ellen goes to Toronto to visit a friend during the summer but she is called home after a short time with the new that her mother has died. Her mother leaves Ellen a note encouraging her to find her birth other. Ellen goes and finds her birth mother who is a lawyer. This book is better for older students.
 
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tzarate | 2 autres critiques | Apr 24, 2014 |
Gr 5-7-In this adventure, events in Ellen's life move at such a dizzying pace that it's hard for readers to keep up. Ellen is asked to fill in for someone at a debating tournament, and although she has never competed before and the judge berates her for her sloppy appearance, she wins first place. As summer begins, she visits a friend in Toronto, but is quickly called home to Partridge Cove with the news that her mother, who suffered from MS, has died. Mum left a letter encouraging Ellen to find and get to know her birth mother. Although resistant at first, Ellen pursues the matter and discovers that her birth mother is Sarah, the abrasive Vancouver lawyer who judged the debate. As Ellen meets her previously unknown relatives, she is introduced to Judaism and finds her faith deepening. A subplot about a large corporation trying to build up the town's waterfront adds an environmental element, and as Sarah helps Ellen's dad fight the developer, a romantic bond blossoms. Givner portrays Ellen's anger after her mother's death and the family upheaval quite realistically, but the way that the rest of the events unfold so conveniently detracts from what could have been a powerful novel. Purchase only where the earlier books are popular.-Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
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Œuvres
16
Membres
182
Popularité
#118,785
Évaluation
3.1
Critiques
4
ISBN
36
Langues
1

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