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With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped -- the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these stories (set in the world Munro has made her own: the countryside and towns around Lake Huron) about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a vivid and lasting portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be.
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Fiction, Canadian Short stories, Short stories, Large type books, Fiction, short stories (single author), 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA, Gays, Homosexuality, Lesbians, Interviews, American literature, Literatuur, Literature [discipline], nyt:hardcover-fiction=2012-12-02, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, City and town life, Fate and fatalism, Kurzgeschichte, Amerikanisches Englisch, NEW LIST 20121231, Life, Canadian fiction (English), 21st centuryPeople
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Canada, Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)Showing 9 featured editions. View all 24 editions?
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Dear Life: Stories (Vintage International)
Jul 30, 2013, Vintage
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0307743721 9780307743725
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"A Douglas Gibson Book."
Trillium Book Award winner for Literature, 2012
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In story after story in this brilliant collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer. Illumined by Munro’s unflinching insight, these lives draw us in with their quiet depth and surprise us with unexpected turns. And while most are set in her signature territory around Lake Huron, some strike even closer to home: an astonishing suite of four autobiographical tales offers an unprecedented glimpse into Munro’s own childhood. Exalted by her clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, Dear Life shows how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.(source)
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