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" Watermelon syrup : "
Annie Jacobsen ; with Jane Finlay-Young and Di Brandt.
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BL
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1008651
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b763021
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| Main Entry
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Jacobsen, Annie,1946-2005.
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| Title & Author
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Watermelon syrup : : a novel /\ Annie Jacobsen ; with Jane Finlay-Young and Di Brandt.
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| Publication Statement
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Waterloo, Ont. :: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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Life writing series
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1 online resource (ix, 265 pages)
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| ISBN
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1435628438
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: 1554580056
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: 155458101X
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: 1554587131
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: 9781435628434
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: 9781554580057
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: 9781554581016
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: 9781554587131
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1554587131
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Watermelon Syrup; Foreword; Prologue; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Eight; Nine; Ten; Eleven; Twelve; Thirteen; Fourteen; Fifteen; Sixteen; Seventeen; Eighteen; Nineteen; Twenty; Twenty-one; Twenty-two; Twenty-three; Twenty-four; Twenty-five; Twenty-six; Twenty-seven; Twenty-eight; Twenty-nine; Epilogue; Afterword; References; Books in the Life Writing Series.
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| Abstract
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Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences, happily wears Cammy's expensive cast off clothes, and is transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she returns a changed person. At home, Lexi finds a journal written by her older brother during.
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Social conditions.
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Ontario, Social conditions, Fiction.
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Ontario.
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| Dewey Classification
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C813/.6
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PR9199.4.J34W38 2007eb
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Brandt, Di,1952-
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Finlay-Young, Jane,1958-
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