Alice Munro - Böcker

Here is the perfect introduction to Alice Munro's brilliant, revelatory short stories in which she unfolds the wordless secrets that lie at the center of human experience. Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout her career: The title storie...

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From the 2013 Nobel laureate in Literature--and perhaps our most beloved author: a new selection of her peerless short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994).

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, ...

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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The solution came to the writer one evening: she should have an office. From Nobel Laureate Alice Munro, a brilliantly executed and revelatory story—one of the earliest publishe...

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A New York Times Editors' Choice Book Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled ...

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A New York Times Editors’ Choice BookSpanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparall...

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"Runaway" is the first story in this stunning collection, sure to be a runaway success. All of the eight stories are new, published in book form for the first time--a special feast for the millions of Munro fans around the world.

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From the award-winning and bestselling author of "Runaway" comes a new book of short stories that is as transporting as anything shes ever written ("New York Times").

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These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them. Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail Sunday TimesA wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her ...

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Alice Munro turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. One of my very favourite writers Claire TomalinFrom her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth ...

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When her sick husband carries out a long-agreed-upon plan in her absence, Nina is unable to deny shock and grief from taking hold. This story recounts the married life of the couple, the aftermath of a death, and the stubbornness present in both.P...

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Alfrida, for so long an admired, urbane exponent of big-city living to her young rurally isolated niece, has lost some of her gloss by the time she accepts a university place in the same city as her aunt. Part of the Storycuts series, this short s...

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A consultation with an oncologist disrupts Jinny's resolutions and resignations, and she must confront issues she'd hitherto been content to let lie. Leaving her husband to his distractions, she allows a strange boy to drive her home by way of an ...

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When two teenage girls fabricate one end of a correspondence, they leave a lonely, unprepossessing housemaid with some sadly misguided ideas. The prank upsets several lives, even if all the pieces don't tip over in the expected directions.Part of ...

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Childhood friends, whose affectionate relationship suffered an abrupt disruption, are reunited unexpectedly in the home of a mutual acquaintance. Both bear the marks of life's disappointments as they set about renegotiating the terms of their asso...

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Lorna finds herself strangely attracted to Lionel, a former maths prodigy and student of her husband's. When family affairs call him away and his absence coincides with the unwelcome visit of her cousin, she grows ill at ease.Part of the Storycuts...

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When Queenie elopes with a recently widowed neighbour her family are uniformly shocked, and a window on adult life and relationships is opened for her step-sister. A summertime stay with the newlyweds in Toronto yields further insight into the liv...

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A fleeting affair lingers in the memory of a woman. Thirty years after the event, when both husband and lover have died, she remembers one further detail. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Ha...

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**WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE****WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE**Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant collection of short stories.Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a p...

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Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety, more grace, more tender twists of t...

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The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.**WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN FRANZEN**Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the n...

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Read Alice Munro s 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 pressu...

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In this collection, Alice Munro captures the lives of ordinary women; their passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant ObserverMunro explores women who a...

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These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental, and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. Complete, complex, and brilliantly structured Daily TelegraphIn fact...

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Open Secrets consists of eight luminous and poetic stories, each one as rich as a novel.'A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion' Inde...

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'Superb' Independent'Exact and unflinching' GuardianCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more.More than she can find in the encyclopaedias sold by...

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Discover Alice Munro s remarkable early stories. Alice Munro s stories are miraculous Sunday TimesThe sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and love, anger, and reconciliation, as they ...

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Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written.'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being' The TimesSpanning her las...

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**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK**Previously published as 'The Beggar Maid', Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world....

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In the two novellas that make up The Equations of Love, Ethel Wilson describes ordinary people in perilous circumstances with extraordinary insight and compassion. “Tuesday and Wednesday” reconstructs the events of two days in the life...

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