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Alice Munro
Traditional Chinese edition of The Love of A Good Woman by Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc…
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On a clear day, you could see ‘America’ from Edinburgh’s Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro’s great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. This is the story…
Con la mirada profunda y sutil que tanto la caracteriza, Alice Munro nos habla sobre el amor, la traicion, el pasado y la experiencia del tiempo.
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Una coleccion de cuentos de la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2013.
?Como lo hara Alice Munro? Lo que consigue parece magia.Sara Mesa
Una joven madre recibe consuelo…
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE ® IN LITERATURE 2013
In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstratesthe precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique…
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A collection of stories which explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk.
The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken- the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout…
A young girl gets an unexpected glimpse into her father’s past. A married woman tries to release her homebound sister after the death of their mother. The audience at a…
La gran autora canadiense nos ofrece ‘Mi vida querida, ’ una coleccion de cuentos en los que vemos a hombres y mujeres obligados a traficar con la duda, el dolor…
In her latest collection of stories, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected, in tales that resonate with sorrow, humor, and wisdom, and confirm her reputation as…
An unforgettable masterpiece from the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.
From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature … a new selection of her … short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion…
Originally published as: Who do you think you are? 1978.
In this collection, Alice Munro takes mainly the lives of women, and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure…
Written by the winner of the 1994 W H Smith Award, this book contains a selection of stories, from the earliest published work in 1968 to the works in 1994.
A collection of eight stories explores such themes as the complexities of love, the unexpected implications of passion, and the strange, frequently whimsical desires of the human heart.
A portrayal of a young girl’s youth in a Canadian town and her awakening to womanhood in the 1940s follows Del Jordan as she explores the dark and bright sides…
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives…
In the powerful, haunting stories of Munro’s new collection, men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have…
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey…
Originally published as Selected stories.
Set in her native southwest Ontario, they include ‘Royal Beatings’, in which a young girl, her father and her stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of…
With clarity and ease, Munro (winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize) once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways…
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 ).
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Previously published as ‘The Beggar Maid’ Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and…
Korean edition of DANCE OF THE HAPPY SHADES is a collection of 15 short stories that took place across Canada by Alice Munro, author of many short stories including ‘Runaway’…
ALICE MUNRO INEDITA
El aclamado primer libro de relatos de la Nobel de Literatura, ganador del Governor General’s Award
La magia de Alice Munro, que han invocado tantos escritores y…
Traditional Chinese edition of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by 2013 Nobel Literature prize winner Alice Munco. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong…
Lumen recupera una extraordinaria coleccion de cuentos de Alice Munro, la autora de Mi vida querida y ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, donde la escritora explora el vinculo entre…
Neil K. Besner
A literary exploration of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women.
James Carscallen
In this study of Alice Munro’s writing style, James Carscallen reveals a consistency to her works previously unsuspected, creating an unconscious thread throughout Munro’s creations. Carscallen sets out his interpretive…
Magdalene Redekop (University of Toronto, Canada)
This study of the work of Alice Munro focuses on her obsession with mothering, and relates it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. Magdalene Redekop studies this with…
DEBORAH HELLER
Toronto literary scholar Heller examines Munro’s treatment of mother-daughter relationships in four more recent stories, My Mother’s Dream, Family Furnishings, Soon, and Silence, showing how these later works transform the…
Reham Yassin
Literary critics have argued over the status of women in the world and their self-development of their literary and cultural position in literary works. Women’s oppression, self-complication, and self-recognition are…
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Carol Mazur
Widely recognized as one of the greatest short story writers of the last half century, Alice Munro’s works have been collected in such volumes as Dance of the Happy Shades…
The book offers an intercultural perspective on the work of Alice Munro, the Canadian 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature. The texts are divided into reminiscences, literary interpretations, film and stage…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Alice Munro’s Boys and Girls, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Alice Munro’s Day of the Butterfly, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s writings.
Ajay Heble (University of Guelph Ontario Canada)
Heble offers both a careful reading of Munro’s stories and a theoretical framework for reading meanings in absence. His book extends recent revisionist analysis and makes a valuable and original…
The Canadian author Alice Munro, recognized as one of the world’s finest short story writers, published some seventeen books between 1968 and 2014, and was awarded the third Man Booker…
New essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography to devote attention to the regional settings of Munro’s stories and how they affect her characters’ development or stasis.
This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir, Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story Writer, by Munro’s renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction…
This rich volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, Returning to the Source: Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty…
A Study Guide for Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Alice Munro’s Walker Brothers Cowboy, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
