01468cam a2200241 4500 156999034 TxAuBib 20140307120000.0 000810s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00063412 9780375707490 pbk. 0375707492 pbk. TxAuBib Munro, Alice. Lives of girls and women [(PB)] / Alice Munro. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2001. 277 p. ; 21 cm. "Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life." -- P.4 of cover. 20140307. Young women Fiction. Canada Social life and customs Fiction.