Runaway

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 A re-jacketed version of the bestselling collection of short stories by the Man Booker International-winning author of short story collections and novels, expertly conveying the pain and desolation beneath the surface. Zusammenfassung **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Munro, Munro Alice
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.02.2006
• EAN: 9780099472254
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947225-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary