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Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009 by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction
Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature **'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, he ...Show more
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction
Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick ...Show more
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisabl ...Show more
The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction
The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of h ...Show more
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Catle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awake ...Show more
The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro
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Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Drawing on the history of Alice MunroâÃÂÃÂs ScottishâÃÂÃÂCanadian family and her own life, this latest book of short fiction may be her last, the 75-year-old says. Geraldine Brooks, reviewing The View from Castle Rock in the Washington Post, enthuses: âÃÂÃÂMunro really does know mag ...Show more
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction
This is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro's stories surprise and ...Show more
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, and about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munr ...Show more