Dear Life: Unforgettable literary short stories from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Nov 2012 · Random House
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Discover Alice Munro’s powerful stories about ordinary people at the moments when chance, memory or desire changes everything.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, Alice Munro writes stories that move with quiet force through the accidents, choices and memories that can alter a life.
In Dear Life, chance meetings, family estrangements, and illicit affairs unfold across small towns, trains, houses and hospitals. Men and women look back at what they did, what they failed to understand, and what time has refused to soften. Munro’s fiction finds strangeness in ordinary domestic life.
Precise, unsparing and luminous, Dear Life shows why Munro remains one of the essential writers of the modern short story.
‘She is so damn good’ Anne Enright
‘Deep and surprising and unsparing’ Guardian
Discover Alice Munro’s powerful stories about ordinary people at the moments when chance, memory or desire changes everything.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, Alice Munro writes stories that move with quiet force through the accidents, choices and m...
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Roy Aziz
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October 30, 2013
I never want to reach the end of her books.
nisha .R
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October 26, 2014
Loved the story
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Anamika Sharma
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August 26, 2017
Amazing stories
About the author
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Lite...
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