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When Alice lay down with Peter : a novel by Margaret Sweatman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>When Alice Lay Down with Peter</b> is a sweeping, magical novel that follows four generations of the McCormack family through more than a century of Canadian history, as it unfolds on the flood plains of southern Manitoba. The story of Alice and Peter McCormack and their progeny is a glorious, witty, and intimate epic that truly reminds us that life stories not only include the details of the past, but also expand into the present and future, encompassing much more than the statistics of life and death would seem to admit. Narrated by Blondie McCormack — Alice and Peter’s daughter, who has just died at the age of 109 — <b>When Alice Lay Down with Peter</b> is a novel that rejoices in the inevitability of change, and in the hauntings that reward our choosing to remember our own history.</p> <p>Blondie’s narrative begins before her own life does, in the late 1860s, when Alice falls in love with Peter in the Orkneys, just before he sails for a new life in the New World. Disguising herself as a man, Alice follows his route and joins the Métis buffalo hunt in southern Manitoba, where she finds both Peter and the life experience she needs. But the expansion of Canada has wrought ha
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Margaret Sweatman
- Publisher
- [Toronto]: [Vintage Canada]
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780676973150
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.58 / 5 (8 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13