Garbo LaughsWinner of the Ottawa Book Award Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Top Five Canadian Fiction Book of the Year A Maclean’s Top Ten Book of the Year Elizabeth Hay’s runaway national bestseller is a funny, sad-eyed, deliciously entertaining novel about a woman caught in a tug of war between real life and the films of the past. Inflamed by the movies she was deprived of as a child, Harriet Browning forms a Friday-night movie club with three companions-of-the-screen: a boy who loves Frank Sinatra, a girl with Bette Davis eyes, and an earthy sidekick named after Dinah Shore. Into this idiosyncratic world, in time with the devastating ice storm of 1998, come two refugees from Hollywood: Harriet’s Aunt Leah, the jaded widow of a screenwriter blacklisted in the 1950s, and her sardonic, often overbearing stepson, Jack. They bring harsh reality and illuminate the pull of family and friendship, the sting of infidelity and revenge, the shock of illness and sudden loss. Poignant, brilliant, and delightfully droll, Garbo Laughs reveals how the dramas of everyday life are sometimes the most astonishing of all. |
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Contents
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Section 2 | 16 |
Section 3 | 22 |
Section 4 | 43 |
Section 5 | 46 |
Section 6 | 50 |
Section 7 | 67 |
Section 8 | 77 |
Section 15 | 136 |
Section 16 | 141 |
Section 17 | 163 |
Section 18 | 188 |
Section 19 | 192 |
Section 20 | 203 |
Section 21 | 224 |
Section 22 | 265 |
Section 9 | 86 |
Section 10 | 93 |
Section 11 | 95 |
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Section 13 | 121 |
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Section 23 | 300 |
Section 24 | 336 |
Section 25 | 367 |
Section 26 | 375 |
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