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

A Good House

Bonnie Burnard

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 2730 Users | 161 Reviews

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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 just hate this book..its so annoying that i have throw this book in my dustbinit just not end anywhere the author just keep on adding more and more character in it, and at some point you would really open the previous pages and see who is who.this book i would recommend only to my enemy...it sucks .....

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

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.

This book was a conundrum. On the one hand, I hated the writing style and believe it could have been edited down at least a hundred pages. On the other hand, and I liked that the story left so many unanswered questions and had fairly realistic characters. In the end, I decided I didn't really enjoy it, because I just wasn't engaged in the characters.

"You don't just read A GOOD HOUSE; you move into it for a while." -Chatelaine A GOOD HOUSE by Bonnie Burnard is # 1 National Best Seller and 1999 winner of the Giller Prize and the CBA People's Choice Award and was published around the world in many languages. A Good House is Bonnie Burnard's first novel. A recipient of the Marian Engel Award, Burnard lived in London, Ontario. The story begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario and spans almost fifty years to 1997. I enjoyed the beautiful writing

This book started out wonderfully, telling the tale of one particular family. The only problem was that by the end of the book, there were too many characters! The kids all married, had kids of their own who in turn grew up, and I found that there were just too many characters floating around. She was only able to touch briefly on each of them by that point; by the end, there was no meat in the story. Still, worth reading.

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