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Carried Away
by Munro, Alice
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
[New York: [Alfred A. Knopf], [1994].
Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 212 x 138 mm), 51,[1] pages in photo-illustrated stapled wrappers. With a letter from the publisher.
SIGNED by Alice Munro on the title page, number 1362 of an unknown number of copies published to promote "Open Secrets," a collection of Munro's stories. She won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. The book includes a letter from the publisher to booksellers.
CONDITION: Light edge wear and rubbing to spine extremities. There's also a light horizontal dent to the top of the lower wrapper and extending through the final six pages. The publisher's letter has edge wear and a nick. Folded in half in an envelope. Near Fine.
Synopsis
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2095
- Title
- Carried Away
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- [Alfred A. Knopf]
- Place of Publication
- [New York
- Date Published
- [1994]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction; Signed or Inscribed; Women Authors
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA
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About Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA
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