Open Secrets
by Munro, Alice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good. Deckled pages; all else clean, tight & attractive. /Very good. Clean, tight & attractive. DJ protected by new Mylar wrap.
- Seller
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Golconda, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Deckled pages; all else clean, tight & attractive. /Very good. Clean, tight & attractive. DJ protected by new Mylar wrap. . 8vo; 294pg. Grey boards; beige spine strip; gilt publishing logo and author's intials on front board; gilt lettering on spine. Dj design by Carol Devine Carson; DJ photograph by Marion Ettlinger.
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
- Rosebud Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1.20289
- Title
- Open Secrets
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. Deckled pages; all else clean, tight & attractive.
- Jacket Condition
- Very good. Clean, tight & attractive. DJ protected by new Mylar wrap.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- short stories;
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About the Seller
Rosebud Books
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Golconda, Illinois
About Rosebud Books
Rosebud Books is located in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest in the "Land Between the Rivers". We are an internet shop, open by appointment to the public. Our inventory contains a litte bit of everything from vintage technical to modern first eds. We have a nice collection of vintage and collectible children's literature and all types of poetry, art, & drama.
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