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Overview**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being- the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alice MunroPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.234kg ISBN: 9780099578635ISBN 10: 0099578638 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 03 October 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAlice Munro.can create a whole world in a short story - these stories are only 20 or 30 pages long, but they live in the mind like novels. These are stories about the stories we tell ourselves, and they are first rate Evening Standard A validation for the genre -- Catherine Taylor Sunday Telegraph Seven A quiet revelation... Dear Life is full of remarkable moments in ordinary lives and is imbued with an aching sadness -- Laurie Sansom Herald In this superb collection of short stories, the acclaimed Canadian writer shows repeatedly how apparently ordinary lives can be infused with dramatic intensity Mail on Sunday A collection of truly beautiful short stories, perfectly crafted in a way that leaves no wanting feeling. Profound, poignant and undeniably powerful, this truly is the short story at its finest The Bookbag Deep and surprising and unsparing -- Helen Simpson Guardian In this book Munro has laid bare the foundations of her fiction as never before. Lovers of her writing must hope this is not, in fact, her finale. But if it is, it's spectacular -- Ruth Scurr Daily Telegraph As rich and astonishing as anything she has ever done before New York Review of Books Another dazzling collection of short stories, provincial and universal in equal measure -- Sara Wheeler Observer What unifies the 14 stories in Dear Life is a quietness of tone and the unliterary language. Munro writes as an exceptionally ordinary person might do in a letter to a close friend, never using words you need to look up in a dictionary and never introducing flashy metaphors and similes, and never misplacing a comma. The style is in keeping with the settings, where a doctor's bill can be the undoing of a family, religion weighs heavily on the soul and everyone knows everyone else's business -- Alan Taylor Herald What unifies the 14 stories in Dear Life is a quietness of tone and the unliterary language. Munro writes as an exceptionally ordinary person might do in a letter to a close friend, never using words you need to look up in a dictionary and never introducing flashy metaphors and similes, and never misplacing a comma. The style is in keeping with the settings, where a doctor's bill can be the undoing of a family, religion weighs heavily on the soul and everyone knows everyone else's business -- Alan Taylor Herald A slight sense of withholding gives Munro's prose its gracefulness, and allows intimacy without danger. After many years, many collections and many wonderful stories, readers may feel they know everything about Alice Munro, especially as so many of her characters lead lives similar to her own. In fact, we know very little about her. This is one of the reasons readers become dizzy with love for Munro. This other reason is that she is so damn good -- Anne Enright Guardian A collection of stories unravelling the mystery in the domestic...candid -- Catherine Taylor Sunday Telegraph Deceptively artless...Munro has no need for tricks; there is nothing strange. Just everyday life, in all its plain, abundant richness and sorrow -- Claire Allfree Metro [A] striking collection -- Emma Herdman Psychologies Alice Munro...can create a whole world in a short story - these stories are only 20 or 30 pages long, but they live in the mind like novels... These are stories about the stories we tell ourselves, and they are first rate Evening Standard A quiet revelation... Dear Life is full of remarkable moments in ordinary lives and is imbued with an aching sadness -- Laurie Sansom Herald In this superb collection of short stories, the acclaimed Canadian writer shows repeatedly how apparently ordinary lives can be infused with dramatic intensity Mail on Sunday A collection of truly beautiful short stories, perfectly crafted in a way that leaves no wanting feeling... Profound, poignant and undeniably powerful, this truly is the short story at its finest The Bookbag A writer who has refined her remarkable talents over a long lifetime, a writer whose mastery of the craft has reached a level that her nickname, Canada's Chekhov feels emptied of all hyperbole... Beautifully written and ambitious in terms of form -- Billy O'Callaghan Irish Examiner Author Information**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, 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 WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been 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. She lives in Port Hope, Ontario, near lake Ontario in Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |