Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

An illuminating collection from one of the most celebrated story writers of our time

Zusatztext This powerful and unsettling collection of short stories received wonderfulreviews! which Vintage are hoping to translate into greater sales success.Publication has been brought forward from the original July to March. "Essentialand pleasurable reading for anyone concerned with the art of fiction" ShenaMackay. Informationen zum Autor Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women . She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid ), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024. Klappentext This powerful and unsettling collection of short stories received wonderful reviews, which Vintage are hoping to translate into greater sales success. Publication has been brought forward from the original July to March. "Essential and pleasurable reading for anyone concerned with the art of fiction" Shena Mackay. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

An illuminating collection from one of the most celebrated story writers of our time

Autorentext
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.

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This powerful and unsettling collection of short stories received wonderful reviews, which Vintage are hoping to translate into greater sales success. Publication has been brought forward from the original July to March. "Essential and pleasurable reading for anyone concerned with the art of fiction" Shena Mackay.

Zusammenfassung
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.