- Fiction, Marriage, Nursing homes, College teachers
Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" -- the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Contemplative, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Alice Munro
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 323
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, RBA, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- Dutch, Chinese, Swedish, German
- ISBN
- 9780307481818
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Alice Ann Munro (/mʌnˈroʊ/, née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."
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