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Swing Low: A Life

Miriam Toews

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"Audacious, original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of Swing Low." --Globe and Mail (Canada)

Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight, Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring and deeply affecting memoir of her father's struggle with manic depression in a small Mennonite community in rural Canada. Personal and touching, a stirring counterpart to her novel IrmaVoth and reminiscent of works by Susan Cheever, Gail Caldwell, Mary Karr, and Alexandra Styron, Swing Low is an elegiac ode to a difficult life by an author drawing from the deepest well of insight, craft, and emotion.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Sep 6th, 2011
  • Pages: 240
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.10in - 0.70in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9780062070166
  • Categories: • Educators• Psychopathology - Depression• Memoirs

About the Author

Toews, Miriam: -

Miriam Toews was born in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published five novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards in Canada, including the Governor General's Literary Award (for A Complicated Kindness) and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (for The Flying Troutmans). In 2010 she received the prestigious Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Irma Voth is Toews's most recent novel. She lives in Toronto.

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"...Toews offers a touching memoir." -- Publishers Weekly

"The magic of Swing Low is that Toews makes a life that looked ordinary, even grindingly so, seem exalted." -- Maria Russo, New York Times Book Review

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