Vintage Munro by Alice Munro
Six of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro's revelatory short stories that unfold the wordless secrets that lie at the center of the human experience."Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical . . . the master of the contemporary short story. . . . Munro, like few others, [has] come close to solving the greatest mystery of them all: the human heart and its caprices."--From the Presentation Speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 2013
Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout Alice Munro's storied career: the title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, as well as "Differently," from Friend of My Youth; "Carried Away," from Open Secrets; and "In Sight of the Lake" from Dear Life.
This edition includes the Nobel Prize Presentation Speech
Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and went to Western University. She has eleven collections of stories, two volumes of selected stories, and a novel to her credit. She has won numerous medals and prizes over her illustrious career, including three Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, and England's W.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804173568 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804173567 |
| Title | Vintage Munro |
| Author | Alice Munro |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2014-04-22 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Man Booker International Prize 2009 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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