- Social life and customs, Fiction, Canadian Short stories, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fifteen stories about life in rural Ontario deal with adolescence, loneliness, broken hearts, an abandoned wife, family relations, blind dates, and an aspiring writer.
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Classical in form, prestige, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Alice Munro
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 227
- Publisher
- Penguin, Ryerson P., FISCHER Taschenbuch
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- French, Chinese, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9788877381675
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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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