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A Good House

Bonnie Burnard

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 2730 Users | 161 Reviews

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Title	:	A Good House
Author	:	Bonnie Burnard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	July 24th 2000 by Phyllis Bruce Books Perennial (first published January 1st 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada

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A Good House is an extraordinary success story, with ten printings in the first six months of publication. This remarkable portrait that details the fabric of ordinary family life over three generations has captured the hearts of readers and critics—not to mention award committees—all across the country.

Bill Chambers has come home from the Second World War with several fingers missing, but with his hope intact. He wants the best for his wife, Sylvia, and his children, Patrick, Paul and Daphne, and with his steady job at the hardware store in his small hometown, the future opens broadly before him.

A powerful tale of rites and rituals, A Good House is full of masterful details and memorable snapshots of the complex web that is family.Burnard’s keen powers of observation and her sensitivity to emotional nuance have created people we can all recognize and a story that is as moving as it is profound.

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Original Title:	A Good House
ISBN:	000648526X (ISBN13: 9780006485261)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ontario(Canada)
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize (1999)

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Ratings: 3.61 From 2730 Users | 161 Reviews

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I have to say that I really liked this book and I cannot exactly say why. It's not about anything extraordinary, it covers very average people, doing average things, in an average time period but it was so evocative, smooth, emotive and wonderful. The characters are real, people you might know, making their way through life the best they can. It was a lovely book.Its best to just dive into it without any expectations.

Read it twice to remember why it was I liked it the first time. Now I'll have to pull it off the shelf again one day. I can say that I liked it far more than her book of short stories.



I read more than half of this book before I finally admitted that I couldn't care less what happened, and there are too many books in the work to waste my time feeling unfulfilled. This book is about a family, so you would expect some sort of emotion, some human aspect. Instead it felt like a laundry list of the family events accompanied by excessive detail about their surroundings. A moment would peak and the author simply wrote "then they understood why she was crying", except she never tells

This I loved! It was an old fashioned, generational family saga, with the writing so beautiful that you were unaware somehow. The tale meandered, much as life does, with evolving relationships and emerging tolerances. There were brief hints of the typical Canadian arrogance towards Americans, but I can forgive her that. I was disappointed to learn that Bonnie Burnard's additional work consists only of a couple of short story collections and one other novel. That one looks as though it may be

4 STARS"A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chambers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future color every facet of life: the possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife Sylvia, and their three children.In the fifty years that follow, the possibilities narrow. Sylvia's untimely death marks her family indelibly but in ways only time will reveal. Paul's perfect marriage yields an imperfect child. Daphne unabashedly follows an unconventional path, while

Not recommended. It goes through the life of a lot of characters, but I didn't really sense there was a point to the story. I read it because it won the Giller Prize.