Summer of My Amazing Luck
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| Author | Miriam Toews |
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| Language | English |
| Published | 1996 (Turnstone Press) |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 192 pp (first edition) |
Summer of My Amazing Luck is the first novel by the Canadian author Miriam Toews published in 1996 by Turnstone Press.[1]
It is a humorous novel about "welfare mothers" in a Winnipeg housing complex, who take a summer trip to Colorado.[2] The novel was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. The story was loosely-based on Toews's own experiences as a young mother.[3]
After the success of A Complicated Kindness, Summer of My Amazing Luck and Toews's second novel A Boy of Good Breeding were re-released by Toews's current publisher Penguin Random House in 2006.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Summer of My Amazing Luck and A Boy of Good Breeding". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
- ^ Byrne, Kathleen (April 26, 1997). "Welfare! Single mothers! Illegitimacy! Jokes! Leacock-nominated novel will no doubt be targeted by book-banners for its high immorality content". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ Schwartz, Alexandra (March 18, 2019). "A Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with her Mennonite Past". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Summer of My Amazing Luck and A Boy of Good Breeding". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
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