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The proxy bride

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  • Publisher:
    Quattro Books, 2012
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Favro, Terri
    Date:
    Created
    2012
    Summary:

    In Niagara of the 1960s, a mysterious proxy bride arrives from Italy to marry a candy shop owner with crime connections, only to fall in love with her proxy husband’s teenaged son. Part fairy tale, part gritty realism, The Proxy Bride explores the underbelly of a southern Ontario community steeped in gambling, smuggling and pornography.

    Genre:
    General fiction, Canadian fiction
    Subject(s): Brides | Ontario | Fathers and sons | Italians
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Quattro Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781927443156