Description |
1 online resource (ix, 265 pages). |
Series |
Life writing series |
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Life writing series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Summary |
Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences, happily wears Cammy's expensive cast off clothes, and is transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she returns a changed person. At home, Lexi finds a journal written by her older brother during. |
Subject |
Ontario -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Ontario. (OCoLC)fst01204832
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Genre/Form |
Bildungsromans.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Brandt, Di, 1952-
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Finlay-Young, Jane, 1958-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Jacobsen, Annie, 1946-2005. Watermelon syrup. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2007 9781554580057 1554580056 (OCoLC)123114302 |
ISBN |
9781435628434 (electronic bk.) |
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1435628438 (electronic bk.) |
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