Toronto: Penguin Books, 1986. Book. Illus. by Christopher Pratt;. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 12mo. (xvi) 233 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside; ink marks on the copyright page and the contents page. The cover features a detail from Young Woman with a Slip by Christopher Pratt, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the artist. This story collection contains: Chaddeleys and Flemings: Connection; The Stone in the Field; Dulse; The Turkey Season; Accident; Bardon Bus; Prue; Labor Day Dinner; Mrs Cross and Mrs Kidd; Hard-Luck Stories; Visitors; and The Moons of Jupiter..

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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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Bookseller: W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 216923
Title: THE MOONS OF JUPITER
Author: Munro, Alice
Illustrator: Christopher Pratt;
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: Later Printing
ISBN 10: 0140092390
ISBN 13: 9780140092394
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1986
Size: 12mo
Keywords: governor general's award; canadian author; canadian booksellers association international book year award;
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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