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ISBN: 9780792732471
| Runtime: | 11.27 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Winner of the 1998 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Winner of the 1998 Trillium Book Award
A 1998 New York Times Best Book for Fiction
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes: the vagaries of love; the passion that leads down unexpected paths; the chaos hovering just under the surface of things; and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Included in this collection are The Love of a Good Woman, Jakarta, Cortes Island, Save the Reaper, The Children Stay, Rich As Stink, Before the Change, and My Mother's Dream.
Editorial Reviews
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Author
Author Bio: Alice Munro
Alice Munro (1931–2024) was the author of eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. She won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as many other awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards, two Giller Prizes, the Man Booker International Prize, the Lannan Literary Award, W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and more. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and other publications. She grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Library CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 11.27 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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