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New Selected Stories (English, Hardcover, Munro Alice)

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Munro Alice

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Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780701179885, 9780701179885
Edition: 2011
Pages: 448

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**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Written with emotion and empathy, beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the 'major fiction writers of our time'.

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Book Details

Imprint	Chatto & Windus
Publication Year	2011

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Author Info

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of twelve collections of stories, most recently Too Much Happiness, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has 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 The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron in Canada.

Dimensions

Width	36 mm
Height	240 mm
Length	161 mm
Depth	1.65 inch
Weight	793 gr

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The most striking feature of Munro's short stories is that that they elude the conscious memory. You can read one, savour...really sink yourself into it and then go your separate way. When you come back a couple months later, the story has reinvented itself. Her stories have the inconspicuous vitality of a human breath.
This review is for her New Selected Stories in hardcover. This edition is a delight for the literary window-shopper. It holds the title stories of 11 of her major works. The s...

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