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FRIEND OF MY YOUTH
by Munro, Alice
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1990). First Edition.. Hard Cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition of this short story collection by Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro. 8vo. 273 pp. + 2 pp. of publisher's adverts. A clean copy with price $24.95 intact on front flap in protected mylar.
A fine copy in blue cloth, silver titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. "With her Chekhovian empathy and wisdom, Ms. Munro redefined the contours of the short story, and made her one of todays most influential writers". The New York Times. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
A fine copy in blue cloth, silver titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. "With her Chekhovian empathy and wisdom, Ms. Munro redefined the contours of the short story, and made her one of todays most influential writers". The New York Times. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen 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 Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.
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- Title
- FRIEND OF MY YOUTH
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart, (1990)
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Keywords
- FIRST EDITION SIGNED NOBEL PRIZE .
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