The Dance of the Happy Shades

Informationen zum Autor Alice Munro Klappentext **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Winner of the Man Booker International Prize for 2009, Alice Munro is the author of eleven collections of stories, most recently The View from Castle Rock , 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 W.H. Smith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid . Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker , Atlantic Monthly, The 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. Zusammenfassung **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and aspirations.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Munro
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.03.2000
• EAN: 9780099273776
• ISBN: 978-0-09-927377-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / Canada / 21st Century, Southwestern Ontario