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Manitoba Reads - A Stone Watermelon, by Lois Braun

Thursday, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:49pm

Just a reminder to vote for one of the twelve finalists for this year's Manitoba Reads at CBC's Manitoba Reads page. Here's one of your options:

Nominated for the 1986 Governor General's Award, A Stone Watermelon is a collection of unsentimental, passionate stories of modern life in rural Manitoba. Retired farmers cruise and booze around the countryside, a farm wife contemplates an affair with the hired hand, a crop duster opens the No Place Bar and Grill - these beautifully-crafted portraits of rural people and places are tough and tender, delicate and direct.

Lois Braun's stories have been nominated for numerous literary prizes, including the Governor General's Award, the Journey Prize, and the Manitoba Book of the Year Award. She was born on a grain farm in southern Manitoba and lives in Altona.

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Stone Watermelon

- Lois Braun

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These unsentimental, passionate stories of modern rural life were nominated for the 1986 Governor General's Award. Retired farmers cruise and booze around the countryside; a farm wife contemplates an affair with the hired hand; a cropduster opens the No Place Bar and Grill."... a diamond hard realism and authenticity."--Books in Canada