num_pages: 252
description: From the acclaimed Giller Prize Finalist and Governor General’s Award a delightfully funny and charming second novel about Canada’s smallest town.Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute and her daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea’s attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister — even if thatmeans keeping the town’s population at an even 1500. Bringing to life small-town Canada and all its larger-than-life characters, A Boy of Good Breeding is a big-hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you belong.
language: English
title: A Boy of Good Breeding
titlecomplete: A Boy of Good Breeding
genres: Womens, Canada, Family, Adult, Novels, Literary Fiction, Humor, Canadian Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2089
places: Manitoba
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
publisher: Vintage Canada