Friend of My Youth (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
1991-12-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Vintage
Illustratör/Fotograf
illustrations
Illustrationer
illustrations
Dimensioner
199 x 129 x 19 mm
Vikt
220 g
Komponenter
B
ISBN
9780099820604

Friend of My Youth

av Alice Munro
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Häftad,  Engelska, 1991-12-01
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Read Alice Munros dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection. Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature under a vast span of aspects, moods, and pressures Sunday Times A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends, and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past - and instead, discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
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Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made last * Observer * Alice Munro's stories, Friend of My Youth, are wonderful: intricate, deep, full of absorbing and funny detail, and opening into painful and tender memories with cunningly concealed skill * Independent on Sunday * She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries -- Cynthia Ozick Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature under a vast span of aspects, moods and pressures * Sunday Times * The particular brilliance of Alice Munro is that in range and depth her short stories are almost novels * Daily Telegraph *

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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 Canadas Governor Generals 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.

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