{"product_id":"the-beggar-maid-stories-of-flo-and-rose-9780679732716","title":"The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An exhilarating collection\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) of ten blended stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The rich texture of its narrative and the author's graceful style make [\u003ci\u003eThe Beggar Maid\u003c\/i\u003e] a considerable accomplishment.\"--Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this vibrant series of interweaving stories, Alice Munro recreates the evolving bond--one that is both constricting and empowering--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--in spite of Flo's ridicule and ghastly warnings--leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679732716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 4.89w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/25\/2013 pg. 105\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alice Munro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52571122368693,"sku":"9780679732716","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-beggar-maid-stories-of-flo-and-rose-9780679732716","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}