Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition by Munro, Alice

Six of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro's revelatory short stories that unfold the wordless secrets that lie at the center of the human experience.

"Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical . . . the master of the contemporary short story. . . . Munro, like few others, [has] come close to solving the greatest mystery of them all: the human heart and its caprices."--From the Presentation Speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 2013

Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout Alice Munro's storied career: the title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, as well as "Differently," from Friend of My Youth; "Carried Away," from Open Secrets; and "In Sight of the Lake" from Dear Life.

This edition includes the Nobel Prize Presentation Speech

Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/22/2014
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780804173568

About the Author

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published fourteen 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, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.