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Brenda Pfaus provides a unique and intriguing, fresh look at one of Canada's greatest living writers.[...]
A work by the author who won the Governor General's Award for her 1968 collection of short stories "Dance of the Happy Shades".[...]
From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature--and one of our most beloved writers--a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to "Selected Stories" (1968-1994).
"Family Furnishings" brings us twenty-four of Al[...]
This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocat[...]
Among the few critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through an examination of Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsett[...]
An evocative and compelling compilation of short fiction by the award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman and other works journeys from the Scotland of the author's own family heritage and a ship en route to the New World, to a family odyssey from Illinois to Canada and in and around Lake Hur[...]
The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections:[...]
In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, ending with e[...]
Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the author's accomplishments working--and playing--alongside some of Canada's greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender A[...]
Douglas Gibson, arguably the editor behind Canada's greatest literary talents, is a terrific storyteller himself. Through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told, from Jack Hodgins' Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood's Labrador, from Alice Mu[...]
'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chr[...]
Del Jordan's said goodbye to childhood - to catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - and now she's impatient for more. Just like the girls in the movies, she wants to get started on real life.[...]
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You.
Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro's writing. The collection illustrates how Munro's short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical cri[...]
Eine großartige neue Erzählungssammlung von Alice Munro, einer der bedeutendsten Autorinnen der Gegenwart. "Himmel und Hölle": neun Geschichten, scheinbar alltäglichharmlos wie ein Kinderspiel und doch von beklemmender Abgründigkeit. Immer sind es Verstrickungen des Gefühls, die seltsamen, oft[...]
Vot uzhe tridtsat let Elis Manro nazyvajut luchshim v mire avtorom korotkikh rasskazov, no k rossijskomu chitatelju ee knigi prikhodjat tolko teper, posle togo, kak pisatelnitsa poluchila Nobelevskuju premiju po literature. Kritika postojanno sravnivaet Manro s Chekhovym, i eto sravnenie ne lisheno [...]
Vot uzhe tridtsat let Elis Manro nazyvajut luchshim v mire avtorom korotkikh rasskazov, no k rossijskomu chitatelju ee knigi prikhodjat tolko teper, posle togo, kak pisatelnitsa poluchila Nobelevskuju premiju po literature. Kritika postojanno sravnivaet Manro s Chekhovym, i eto sravnenie ne lisheno [...]
«Forfatterens forfatter» er en pocketserie hvor forfatterne selv velger - og presenterer - sine favorittbøker.Erna Osland har valgt Alice Munros Uvennskap, vennskap, forelskelse, forlovelse, ekteskap (2004). Om denne boka skrev norske anmeldere: «Det er ikke tvil: Alice Munro er en gudbenådet [...]