Dear Life: Stories by Munro, Alice

Paperback. Good.

Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, 2012. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Canadian First. Complete number line from 1 to 5; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition..

McClelland & Stewart. Used - Acceptable.

Toronto / Boston, New York: McClelland & Stewart, 2012. First printing. Lightly bumped on ends of spine, else fine. DJ fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto : Douglas Gibson Books, 2012 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. Alice Munro's peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is forever altered by a chance encounter or an action not taken, or by a simple twist of fate that turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into a new way of being or thinking. A poet, finding herself in alien territory at her first literary party, is rescued by a seasoned newspaper columnist, and is soon hurtling across the continent, young child in tow, toward a hoped-for but completely unplanned meeting. A young soldier, returning to his fiancée from the Second World War, steps off the train before his stop and onto the farm of another woman, beginning a life on the move. A wealthy young woman having an affair with the married lawyer hired by her father to… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2012. Stories. 319 pages. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Douglas Gibson Books. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771064861 . First Edition, First Printing. A Fine+ white Hardcover with bold gilt titles to the spine. The DJ is unclipped and in Fine+ condition. "While most of these stories take place in Munro's home territory - the small Canadian towns around Lake Huron - the characters sometimes venture to the cities, and the book ends with four pieces set in the area where she grew up, and in the time of her own childhood: stories "autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact." A girl who can't sleep imagines night after wakeful night that she kills her beloved younger sister. A mother snatches up her child and runs for dear life when a crazy woman comes into her yard." ; 6.3 X 1.2 X 9.27 inches; 336 pages .

Toronto: McC Lelland & Stewart, 2012. True First Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Number line: 1 2 3 4 5 16 15 14 13 12. A Douglas Gibson Book. Fourteen stories set in southwest Ontario all with " Toronto on the horizon". 319 pp. plus A Note about the Author. Laid in is Indigo packing slip as found. Book has white cloth covered boards with copper gilt text on spine only. Unclipped ($32.99) DJ has very light top edge wear at head of spine. Bookseller's Inventory # 154767.