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Informationen zum Autor Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories—including Dear Life, Runaway , and Too Much Happiness —as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women . Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The Paris Review , and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024. Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE ® IN LITERATURE 2013 In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario, these tales are luminous acts of attention to those vivid moments when revelation emerges from the layers of experience that lie behind even the most everyday events and lives. "Virtuosity, elemental command, incisive like a diamond, remarkable: all these descriptions fit Alice Munro."-- Christian Science Monitor "How does one know when one is in the grip of art--of a major talent?....It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories."-- Wall Street Journal Inhaltsverzeichnis Walker Brothers Cowboy The Shining Houses Images Thanks for the Ride The Office An Ounce of Cure The Time of Death Day of the Butterfly Boys and Girls Postcard Red Dress—1946 Sunday Afternoon A Trip to the Coast The Peace of Utrecht Dance of the Happy Shades...
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Walker Brothers Cowboy
The Shining Houses
Images
Thanks for the Ride
The Office
An Ounce of Cure
The Time of Death
Day of the Butterfly
Boys and Girls
Postcard
Red Dress 1946
Sunday Afternoon
A Trip to the Coast
The Peace of Utrecht
Dance of the Happy Shades
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Praise for Alice Munro
Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does. Jhumpa Lahiri
She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion. Jonthan Franzen
The authority she brings to the page is just lovely. Elizabeth Strout
She s the most savage writer I ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive. Jeffery Eugenides
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. Julian Barnes
She is a short-story writer who . . . reimagined what a story can do. Lorrie Moore
There s probably no one alive who s better at the craft of the short story. Jim Shepard
A true master of the form. Salman Rushdie
A wonderful writer. Joyce Carol Oates
