Book
All my puny sorrows / Miriam Toews.
Record details
- ISBN: 1940450276
- ISBN: 9781940450278
- ISBN: 9781940450278 : HRD
- ISBN: 1940450276 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781940450278
- ISBN: 1940450276
- Physical Description: 317 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2014]
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Divorced women > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. Suicidal behavior > Fiction. Women pianists > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 12 of 12 copies available at Bibliomation.
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- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethel Public Library | F TOEWS (Text) | 34030130259366 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Douglas Library - North Canaan | F TOE (Text) | 33490002523516 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC TOEWS,M (Text) | 34026130945319 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Kent Library Association - Kent | F TOE (Text) | 33410129593465 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION TOEWS (Text) | 32518132019913 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Toe (Text) | 33620128476575 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Norfolk Library | FIC TOE (Text) | 36058010221568 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC TOEWS, M (Text) | 36123001448750 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ridgefield Library | FIC TOEWS (Text) | 34010131614611 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | FIC TOEWS (Text) | 37538131677078 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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All My Puny Sorrows
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Summary
All My Puny Sorrows
Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close -- raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart, how to keep her own heart from breaking, and what it means to love someone who wants to die. All My Puny Sorrows is the latest novel from Miriam Toews, one of Canada's most beloved authors -- not only because her work is rich with deep human feeling and compassion but because her observations are knife-sharp and her books wickedly funny. And this is Toews at her finest: a story that is as much a comedy as it is a tragedy, a goodbye grin from the friend who taught you how to live.
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