· A Good House: A Novel by Bonnie Burnard. Publication Date: October 5, ; Paperback: pages; Publisher: Picador; ISBN ; ISBN Bonnie Burnard has 21 books on Goodreads with ratings. Bonnie Burnard’s most popular book is A Good House. 7 rows · · A Good House begins in in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chambers family. The postwar boom Edition description: First Edition.
First-time novelist Bonnie Burnard, however, evades such worn grooves with the purest renunciation: a patient and lovely voice. In A Good House, awarded Canada's Giller Prize in , Burnard documents an Ontario family over half a century with unadorned, deliberate, and tender sympathy. by Bonnie Burnard 1. Given Margaret's pragmatic approach to her life, her awareness of the ways in which "a life gets built," and in particular her cool-headed decision to marry the widowed Bill Chambers, discuss the decades of love she offers to the Chambers family. It was a good house. Bill and Sylvia Chambers had bought it in when Patrick was four, Daphne one, and Paul just born. The bank loan had looked manageable, and although the war in Europe was well under way and not threatening to wind up any time soon, Bill and Sylvia had both felt a guarded optimism about their lives when they signed the.
The debut novel by Bonnie Burnard caught me unawares, simply because whatever I had expected, I hadn't expected this. Set in a small Canadian town on the shores of Lake Huron, "A Good House" is a chronicler's narrative, a history of one large family, or rather a set of blood-interconnected families. A Good House is the first novel by Canadian writer Bonnie Burnard, published by Picador in and later by Henry Holt and Company in United States of America. It was the winner of that year's Scotiabank Giller Prize. The novel narrates the story of a family in three generations, five houses starting from until a good house by Bonnie Burnard ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 5, A multigenerational Canadian bestseller in which distinctive characters respond gallantly to love, death, and life's unexpected assaults on family happiness.
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