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by Alice Munro
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alice MunroSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2007-04-17Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307386694ISBN-10:307386694UPC:9780307386694Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Psychological, Family LifeSize:7.20 x 4.92 x 0.26 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SC28VTS7HH
From Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, "a true master of the form" (Salman Rushdie), comes the brilliant short story that inspired the major motion picture starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent--featuring a Preface from Sarah Polley

"I've always loved Alice Munro's writing, but this story punctured something. I read it, stunned, and let it sit there. It seemed to enter like a bullet. So concise and unsentimental, nothing to cushion the blow of its impact. When I was finished, I couldn't stop weeping."--Sarah Polley, from the Preface

Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"--the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away from Her--her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife, Fiona, begins gradually to drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307386694ISBN-10:307386694UPC:9780307386694Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Psychological, Family LifeSize:7.20 x 4.92 x 0.26 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SC28VTS7HH

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.


Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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