The Beggar Maid
By Alice Munro
1977
First Published
3.91
Average Rating
258
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In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.
Avg Rating
3.91
Number of Ratings
7,068
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Alice Munro
Author · 50 books
Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw, is a Canadian short-story writer who is widely considered one of the world's premier fiction writers. Munro is a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. She has thus been referred to as "the Canadian Chekhov." She is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. (Arabic: أليس مونرو) (Persian: آلیس مانرو) (Russian Cyrillic: Элис Манро) (Ukrainian Cyrillic: Еліс Манро) (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Алис Мънро) (Slovak: Alice Munroová) (Serbian: Alis Manro)
