Selected Stories

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. Zusammenfassung This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the façade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alice Munro, Munro Alice
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.11.1997
• EAN: 9780099732419
• ISBN: 978-0-09-973241-9
• Seiten: 416
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: Vintage Paperbacks
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / World Literature / Canada / 20th Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary