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The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence.
Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.
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The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence.
Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.
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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- ÉditeurBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Date d'édition1994
- ISBN 10 0747517436
- ISBN 13 9780747517436
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jeff Fisher [Jacket design] (illustrateur). First Thus. First impression of the Bloomsbury Classics edition, published in 1994, with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the printer's page. The book was first published in the USA by McGraw-Hill in 1971, and in the UK by Allen Lane in 1973. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and attractive design to the spine. Gilt still beautifully bright. Boards clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No foxing. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £10.95 net. Dustwrapper complete with no chips, tears or creasing. There is just some very light rubbing to the top edge of the front panel, and some light foxing, also to the front panel. Dustwrapper bright and clean. ***160 mm x110 mm. 281 pages. ***Short stories: "The Flats Road", "Heirs of the Living Body", "Princess Ida", "Age of Faith", "Changes and Ceremonies", "Lives of Girls and Women", "Baptizing", "Epilogue: The Photographer" ***'Alice Munro has been writing stories from the age of twelve and is widely perceived as one of the finest short story writers in the world. Set in rural Ontario where Alice Munro was born and still lives, "Lives of Girls and Women" records a young girl's memories as she observes others during her own progress from childhood to adolescence. As Claire Tomalin wrote in the Observer, "There is not a dull or false note in the book."' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***'Alice Ann Munro born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade." Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction", or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov." Munro has received many literary accolades, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story", and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. "Lives of Girls and Women" is a short story cycle by Nobel Prize?winning author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971. All of the stories chronicle the life of a single character, Del Jordan, and the book has been characterized as a novel by some critics as a result. The cycle serves as a coming of age story for Del Jordan growing up first on the outskirts, and later in the centre, of the small, southern Ontario town of Jubilee. Del is portrayed as something of an outsider, unsatisfied with small-town life though unwilling to acknowledge the similarities between herself and her mother who also seeks to expand her mind beyond the limited experiences of Jubilee. The cycle is often cited as concerning many feminist ideas and it is in this context that the text deals primarily with female characters, with only a few male figures playing important roles' [Wiki] ***First impression of this UK published Bloomsbury Classics edition, in its original dustwrapper, in very nice, clean, bright condition. This edition of Alice Munro's second published work is quite uncommon now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 8203
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