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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.
"Whether Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid is a collection of stories
or a new kind of novel I'm not quite sure, but whatever it is, it's
wonderful. The psychological precision...is a delight, and the
startling twists -- the unexpected leaps in time, the
transformation of familiar characters -- they make the book what
books ought to be, a little wild, a little mysterious." -- John
Gardner
In this exhilarating series of interweaving stories, Alice Munro
re-creates the evolving bond -- one that is both constricting and
empowering -- between two women in the coupe of almost forty years.
One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times
dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a
clumsy, shy girl who somehow-in spite of Flo's ridicule and ghastly
warnings -- leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own
equivocal success in the larger world.
"The stories are absolutely wonderful-every word she writes is
interesting." -- Alice Adams
"The best stories of the year." -- The Nation
Praise from fellow writers:
“Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does.”
—Jhumpa Lahiri
“She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom
I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion.” —Jonthan
Franzen
“The authority she brings to the page is just
lovely.” —Elizabeth Strout
“She’s the most savage writer I’ve ever read, also the most tender,
the most honest, the most perceptive.” —Jeffery Eugenides
“Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no
other writer can.”—Julian Barnes
“She is a short-story writer who…reimagined what a story can
do.” —Loorie Moore
“There’s probably no one alive who’s better at the craft of the
short story.” —Jim Shepard
“A true master of the form.” —Salman Rushdie
“A wonderful writer.” —Joyce Carol Oates
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