Alice Munro

Broschiertes Buch

Lives of Girls and Women

Beschreibung

The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more.

Autor

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 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 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 701148
• Seitenzahl: 319
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9781784700881
• ISBN-10: 1784700886
• Artikelnr.: 41488354

Rezensionen

I still feel that Alice Munro is mine. I am the perfect audience for her brand of quiet, seething feminism Lena Dunham