Swing Low (28 page)

M
IRIAM
T
OEWS
is the author of three novels:
Summer of My Amazing Luck
(nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award and winner of the John Hirsch Award),
A Boy of Good Breeding
(winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award) and A
Complicated Kindness
(winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and finalist for the Giller Prize).
Swing Low: A Life
received the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. She has written for CBC,
This American Life
(NPR),
Saturday Night, Geist, Canadian Geographic, Open Letters
, and
The New York Times Magazine
, and has won the National Magazine Awards Gold Medal for Humour. Miriam Toews lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

VINTAGE CANADA EDTION, 2005

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2005
Miriam Toews

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Swing low : a life / Miriam Toews. — 2nd ed.

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. Toews, Melvin C.
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. Manic-depressive persons—Canada—Biography.
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Toews, Miriam, 1964–.
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. Novelists, Canadian (English)—Family relationships.
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