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Fight Night
'A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering' Observer
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Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit.
Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit.
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'Sets standards for grandmotherly swearing and outspokenness I can never hope to match. Go Grandma Elvira!' - MARGARET ATWOOD
You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.
Swiv has taken her grandmother's advice too literally. Now she's at home, suspended from school. Mum is pregnant and preoccupied – and so Swiv is in the older woman's charge, receiving a very different form of education from a teacher with a style all her own.
Grandma likes her stories fast, troublesome, and funny. She's known the very worst that life can throw at you – and has met it every time with a wild, unnamable spirit, fighting for joy and independence every step of the way. But will maths lessons based on Amish jigsaws and classes on How to Dig a Winter Grave inspire the same fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?
Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life's great changes together.
Fight Night is glorious: funny and sad and beautifully written.' - SARAH MOSS
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Fight Night by Miriam Toews is praised for its wicked humour and fearless honesty. It has been described as a deeply emotional read, with the potential to bring tears to readers’ eyes. Additionally, it is celebrated as a tribute to the strength and wisdom of the matriarchal figures in our lives.
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ISBN: 9780571370726
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 June 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Export - Airside ed
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 283g
Pages: 272
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About the Author
Miriam Toews is the author of six bestselling novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, and All My Puny Sorrows, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
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