FRIEND OF MY YOUTH
by Munro, Alice
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8vo. 276 pp in the original red and green cloth cover stamped in gold on the front and spine, with near fine dust jacket unclipped with price of $18.95 on the inside flap in protected mylar.
A handsome book for any Alice Munro Collector.
"With her Chekhovian empathy and wisdom, Ms. Munro redefined the contours of the short story, and made her one of today's most influential writers". The New York Times.
Alice Munro was the recipient of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work as well.
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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- TBCL The Book Collection Library (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33751
- Title
- FRIEND OF MY YOUTH
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
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