Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "A Bird in the House, first published in 1970, is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence. Noted by Laurence to be \"semi-autobiographical\", the series chronicles the growing up of a young agnostic writer, Vanessa MacLeod, in the fictional town of Manawaka, Manitoba. A Bird in the House was written from the perspective of Vanessa at age forty, while she recalls her childhood (with the exception of the final chapter Jericho's Brick Battlements, when she revisits her childhood home). It is therefore impossible to tell if young Vanessa was truly able to understand the events unfolding around her, or if she gained that understanding later in life. Originally published as a series of independent short stories,"@en }
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- A_Bird_in_the_House abstract "A Bird in the House, first published in 1970, is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence. Noted by Laurence to be \"semi-autobiographical\", the series chronicles the growing up of a young agnostic writer, Vanessa MacLeod, in the fictional town of Manawaka, Manitoba. A Bird in the House was written from the perspective of Vanessa at age forty, while she recalls her childhood (with the exception of the final chapter Jericho's Brick Battlements, when she revisits her childhood home). It is therefore impossible to tell if young Vanessa was truly able to understand the events unfolding around her, or if she gained that understanding later in life. Originally published as a series of independent short stories,".