Alice Munro

Broschiertes Buch

Friend of My Youth

Stories

Beschreibung

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.

"[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

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.

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Produktdetails

• Vintage Contemporaries
• Verlag: Penguin Random House / Vintage, New York
• 1991.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 133mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780679729570
• ISBN-10: 0679729577
• Artikelnr.: 21286729

Rezensionen

Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made last Observer