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A darkly humorous story involving a murder in a girls\u2019 boarding school in the 1960\u2019s. Neither Mouse Bradford nor Paulie Sykes wants to grow up into a woman. Paulie forces Mouse through a series of tests to prove her manliness, which eventually go too far. The current edition has a New Introduction by Susan Swan about the process of the novel becoming a film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wives of Bath<\/em> was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, shortlisted for the Trillium Award, and was recently selected as one of the best novels of the \u201890\u2019s in US Reader\u2019s Guide compiled by McFarland & Co.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wives of Bath<\/em>\u00a0was made into the feature film entitled\u00a0Lost<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Delirious<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(IMDB Info<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0View Trailer<\/a>) directed by Lea Pool and starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Pare and Mischa Barton. It made its debut at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals and has since been sold to 32 countries, including Canada and the U.S., and film critic Roger Ebert picked it as one of the best independent films of 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dimensions: 256 Pages | ISBN: 039428044x
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A darkly humorous story involving a murder in a girls\u2019 boarding school in the 1960\u2019s. Neither Mouse Bradford nor Paulie Sykes wants to grow up into a woman. Paulie forces Mouse through a series of tests to prove her manliness, which eventually go too far. The current edition has a New Introduction by Susan Swan about the … <\/p>\n

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