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Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition

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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
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8041-7356-8
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
Publishing date01/04/2014
Pages224 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 199 mm, Height 133 mm, Thickness 20 mm
Weight188 g
Article no.19172002
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.15951517
Product groupBelletristik
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Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories including Dear Life, Runaway, and Too Much Happiness as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024.