Selected Stories
by Munro, Alice
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- very good
- ISBN 10
- 0679446273
- ISBN 13
- 9780679446279
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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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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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104228
- Title
- Selected Stories
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679446273
- ISBN 13
- 9780679446279
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Western Canadiana|Canadian Lit.|Limited Edition|Signed
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