{"product_id":"9780812224429","title":"Becoming Jane Jacobs","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anne of Green Gables, a Fine Balance, Surfacing, the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, New Canadian Library, the Edible Woman, Such Is My Beloved, Execution, a Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, Emily's Quest, Earth and High Heaven, Such a Long Journey, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Joshua Then and Now, Cocksure, Man Descending, Kilmeny of the Orchard, Beautiful Losers, Last of the Curlews, the Stone Angel, the Diviners, a Bird in the House, Wacousta, the Double Hook, Woodsmen of the West, Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich, More Joy in Heaven, the Incomparable Atuk, Sarah Binks, Each Man's Son, Prochain Épisode, the Favourite Game, Tales From Firozsha Baag, the Street, the Second Scroll, Hetty Dorval, No Love Lost, the Lost Salt Gift of Blood, as Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, Barometer Rising. Excerpt: A Bird in the House , first published in 1970, is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence . Noted by Laurence to be \"semi-autobiographical\", the series chronicles the growing up of a young agnostic writer, Vanessa MacLeod, in the fictional town of Manawaka , Manitoba . A Bird in the House was written from the perspective of Vanessa at age forty, while she recalls her childhood (with the exception of the final chapter Jericho's Brick Battlements , when she revisits her childhood home). It is therefore impossible to tell if young Vanessa was truly able to understand the events unfolding around her, or if she gained that understanding later in life. Originally published as a series of independent short stories, Laurence faced great pressure from her publishers to conform the series into the style of a novel for publication. Having resisted this pressure to conform to the style of novel, A Bird in the H...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030673899760,"sku":"9780812224429","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812224429_p0.jpg?v=1763741777","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812224429","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}