Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" - the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013
Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear ...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(r)IN LITERATURE 2013 The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(r)IN LITERATURE 2013 The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is ...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager's practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hate...
This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodovar film Julieta. Runawayis a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro's hands, the people she writes about-women of all ages and...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013
This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspire...
In this new collection, Alice Munro takes the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface.
In this new collection, Alice Munro takes the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings ...
Drei Erzhlungen und ein kurzer Roman - abgrndige Geschichten, die wie Idyllen beginnen, Kammerspiele des Gefhls und dabei sprachliche Kunstwerke. Alice Munro, laut A. S. Byatt "die grte lebende Geschichtenerzhlerin", erweist sich einmal mehr als Meisterin des subtilen Schauders, Meisterin der Andeutung und der Auslassung.
Drei Erzhlungen und ein kurzer Roman - abgrndige Geschichten, die wie Idyllen beginnen, Kammerspiele des Gefhls und dabei sprachliche Kunstwerke. Alic...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club
In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancee, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A B...