Alice Munro – författare
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Pocket, Svenska, 2023
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Kvinnors liv är den enda romanen av 2013 års Nobelpristagare Alice Munro. Den gavs ursprungligen ut 1971 men kommer för första gången på svenska så sent som 2018, förtjänstfullt översatt av prisbelönta Rose-Marie Nielsen.
Berättelsen om Del Jordan, som växer upp på landsbygden i Ontario på 1940-talet, är en fiktiv självbiografi om författarens resa in i vuxenlivet. Del bor på sin fars gård, där hon mest umgås med sin yngre bror och en excentrisk ungkarl, vän till familjen. När hon börjar tillbringa mer tid i staden omger hon sig för första gången med kvinnor: sin mor, moderns hyresvärd och bästa vännen Naomi. Genom dessa kvinnor och i sina egna möten med sex, moderskapet och döden utforskar Del de mörka och ljusa sidorna av kvinnligheten.
Den som läst Alice Munros noveller känner igen hennes humor, hennes skarpa blick och hennes fängslande personer i Kvinnors liv. Det är helt enkelt bara lite mer av Munro.
Pressröster om Kvinnors liv:
Alice Munro har en sällsam förmåga att mätta och fördjupa de enklaste vardagsscener. Åsa Beckman, DN
Liksom i novellerna förmedlar Munro detta med sådan psykologisk precision och sådant språkligt skarpsinne att de mest komplexa iakttagelserna framstår som självklara. Inte sällan är det också dråpligt, mitt i allvaret, just som livet självt. Marit Furn, SvD
Präglad av det mästerskap, som förmår omsätta en skarp blick i ett exakt språk. Som låter detta språk skapa en värld av beröring och kroppslighet. Och som Rose-Marie Nielsens smidiga översättning låter oss njuta av. Ulf Olsson, Expressen
Kvinnors liv är en högst aktuell roman förmedlad till oss genom Munros Nobelpris. Och ännu en språklig fest för oss alla som älskar att läsa Alice Munro. Jakob Carlander, UNT
Kvinnors liv är en mästerlig skildring av en flickas uppväxt. Cecilia Nelson, GP
Rika porträtt fängslar i Alice Muros roman. Lennart Bromander, Skånska Dagbladet
Alice Munro skildrar karaktärer och skeenden på ett sätt som får annan litteratur att framstå som överflödig. Jenny Högström, Sydsvenskan
Storpocket, Svenska, 2018
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Alice Munros böcker älskas av läsare och kritiker över hela världen. Hon har belönats med flera litterära utmärkelser, sommaren 2019 fick hon Man Booke International Prize, den finaste utmärkelsen en författare kan få vid sidan av Nobelpriset. För mycket lycka består av tio hudnära noveller. Alice Munros berättelser rymmer ofattbar grymhet, svek och brutalitet, men också en seglivad kärlek och mänsklig värme. Munro skriver med sin sedvanliga ömhet, eftertanke och skärpa. Hon avslöjar det spel som ständigt pågår mellan människor, även när det nästan inte märks. För mycket lycka utkom första gången på engelska 2009.
Alice Munro (f. 1931) växte upp i Wingham i den kanadensiska provinsen Ontario. Hon debuterade 1968 och har gett ut fjorton novellsamlingar och en roman. 2009 tilldelades hon Man Booker International Prize. Hos Munro är det ofta kvinnorna som står i centrum, som mödrar, döttrar, hustrur och älskarinnor. Hon har en sällsam förmåga att i detalj gestalta livet så som det är. Alice Munro är 2013 års Nobelpristagare med motiveringen den samtida novellkonstens mästare .
Inbunden, Svenska, 2009
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Alice Munros noveller kan sägas kretsa kring uppbrott och förändringar i till synes vardagliga kvinnors liv i hennes hemtrakter i den kanadensiska provinsen Ontario. Ofta handlar berättelsen om kärlek, men knappast en romantisk sådan, snarare är det en kärlek som man försöker få att fungera eller en kärlek som man återhämtar sig ifrån. Ur detta uppstår stor litteratur som uppskattas och läses över hela världen. Alice Munro har fått flera stora utmärkelser. 2009 tilldelades hon Man Booker International Prize, den finaste utmärkelse en författare kan få vid sidan av Nobelpriset. Nära hem består av ett urval av de starkaste novellerna från Alice Munros tidigare böcker Äpplen eller apelsiner, Kärlekens vägar och Jupiters månar. Sommaren 2009 gav Bokförlaget Atlas även ut novellsamlingen Kärlek, Vänskap, Hat i pocketutgåva. Alice Munro kan med fog kallas den bästa nu verksamma skönlitterära författaren i Nordamerika. Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Om Alice Munros noveller har det sagts att man lär sig någonting man aldrig tänkt på förut. Det är sant. Lika sant är det att man äntligen får ord på det man själv tänkt och känt men inte kommit åt. Att detta dolda, till synes futtiga inte bara gick att dela, utan också kunde vara stor litteratur. Marie Lundström, Sveriges Radio Det här är vackra, ömsinta berättelser som ibland driver fram, ibland ändras i ett slag, men som alltid bestäms av livets val och tillfälligheter. Margaret Atwood
Inbunden, Svenska, 2014
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Få Nobelpris har mötts av så unisont jubel som Alice Munro 2013. Alice Munro har älskats av svenska läsare redan innan priset, men nu blev genombrottet fullständigt. Nu utkommer Alice Munros novellsamling På fri fot från 2004 på svenska för första gången. På fri fot består av åtta berättelser om frihet, tillhörighet och familjeband. Alice Munro skriver om kvinnor som trots, eller på grund av, sin särskilda begåvning och känslighet inte riktigt passar in. De söker frigörelse, men det är aldrig enkelt. Munro är suverän på att skildra de livsavgörande konsekvenserna av små och till synes obetydliga beslut. Hon förklarar inte livet för sina läsare, hon avslöjar det.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2013
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Den som inte upptäckt Alice Munro har något att se fram emot. - Dagens Nyheter Brinnande livet består av fjorton nyskrivna berättelser. Här återfinns allt det som gjort Alice Munro till vår tids mest älskade novellförfattare: smärtan, värmen, kärleken och den sällsamma förmågan att skildra de korta ögonblick som får hela livet att ta en ny vändning. Alice Munro (f. 1931) växte upp i Wingham i den kanadensiska provinsen Ontario. Brinnande livet är hennes fjortonde bok, och den fjärde att ges ut av Bokförlaget Atlas. Hos Munro är det ofta kvinnorna som står i centrum, som mödrar, döttrar, hustrur och älskarinnor. Hon är en mästare på att gestalta livsöden, och skriver korta noveller som rymmer mer djup än de flesta romaner. Den här boken avslutas med en kvartett berättelser där Munro för första gången uttalat skriver om sin egen barndom. Det är yrselframkallande läsupplevelser. 2009 tilldelades Alice Munro Man Booker International Prize, den finaste utmärkelse en författare kan få vid sidan av Nobelpriset.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
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**WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE****WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE**Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant collection of short stories.Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.‘She is so damn good’ Anne Enright‘Deep and surprising and unsparing’ Guardian
Inbunden, Svenska, 2013
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Allt kretsar kring Rose, i tio sammanhängande noveller som spänner över fyrtio år. Hon växer upp i ett fattigt arbetarhem; blyg, klumpig och obekväm. Genom ett stipendium får hon möjlighet att utbilda sig och träna bort fula vanor. Giftermålet med en miljonärsson ger henne tillgång till de fina salongerna. Men Tiggarflickan är ingen askungesaga, utan en skarp berät-telse om klass och klassresa, om familj och om sexualitet. Allt med Alice Munros unika blick for vad som sker under ytan. Tiggarflickan gavs ut första gången på engelska 1978. Det var Alice Munros tredje novellsamling och stora genombrott. Våren 2013 var Alice Munros senaste novellsamling, Brinnande livet, en av de mest omtalade litterära utgivningarna. Svenskarna har tagit Munro till sina hjärtan.
Pocket, Svenska, 2009
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Alice Munros böcker älskas av läsare och kritiker över hela världen. Hon har belönats med flera litterära utmärkelser, sommaren 2009 fick hon Man Booker International Prize, den finaste utmärkelse en författare kan få vid sidan av Nobelpriset. I Alice Munros noveller är det kvinnorna som står i centrum. Berättelserna i Kärlek Vänskap Hat handlar om drömmar och ambitioner, om kärlek och otrohet, och om det pris kvinnor får betala för att leva livet på sina egna villkor. Alice Munro är även aktuell på svenska med boken Nära hem. Hennes senaste bok, För mycket lycka, utkommer våren 2010. Alice Munro bor i Kanada. "Alice Munro är mest känd som novellförfattare, och hon fyller varje berättelse med mer djup, vishet och precision än de flesta romanförfattare lyckas med på en hel livstid. Att läsa Alice Munro är att lära sig någonting man aldrig tänkt på förut." ur motiveringen till Man Booker International Prize Jag tycker att det är en klar femma. Är man intresserad av litteratur så är detta ett måste. Yukiko Duke, SVT "Att läsa Munro försätter mig i ett tillstånd av stillsam reflektion och får mig att tänka på mitt eget liv: på beslut jag fattat, saker jag gjort och inte gjort, på vem jag är, på döden. Hon är en av de skribenter, några levande, de flesta döda, som jag har i åtanke när jag säger att skönlitteratur är min religion." New York Times
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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Discover Alice Munro’s first mesmerising and atmospheric short story collection.‘A remarkable writer whose major characters emerge in shining clarity... A major talent is at work here’ Los Angeles TimesAlice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario.In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows, and aspirations.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 200
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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In this collection, Alice Munro captures the lives of ordinary women; their passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface.‘One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant’ ObserverMunro explores women who are unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy, and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems: as in her title story it can be needy and murderous.Here are women behaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running off with unsuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
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In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface.‘No one could possibly dispute Munro's greatness’ Daily MailThe past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind, and boxed away, it's as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully.Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways in a collection filled with both underlying heartbreak and hope.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact.
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
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In small towns and far-flung cities, ordinary moments carry the weight of secrets that can alter a life. Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s and from rural Ontario to the Somme and the Balkans, Open Secrets is a series of interconnected stories that follow eight women at turning points in their lives. A missed letter, a sudden disappearance, an unexpected act of betrayal. Each event ripples outward, reshaping marriages, friendships and the stories people tell about themselves. From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, Open Secrets is a landmark collection in which private lives unfold against the sweep of twentieth-century history. ‘A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion’ Independent
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.**WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN FRANZEN**Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling than anything she has written before.‘The way to do it justice is to read it. Read Munro!’ Jonathan Franzen‘These stories are breathtaking - they leave you winded with their toughness and brilliance’ GuardianWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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Alice Munro turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past.‘One of my very favourite writers’ Claire TomalinFrom her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
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These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.‘Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail’ Sunday TimesA wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
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Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written.‘Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety, more grace, more tender twists of the human heart - than many novelists do’ IndependentThis first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the façade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories, 1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics.‘Few writers capture the moral ambiguities, murkiness, messiness - and joy - of relationships with as much empathy and grace as Munro’ GuardianWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 200
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
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These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental, and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk.‘Complete, complex, and brilliantly structured’ Daily TelegraphIn fact, Munro's characters pulse with idiosyncratic life. Under the polished surface of these unsentimental dispatches from the small-town and rural front lies a strong undertow of violence and sexuality, repressed until something snaps, with extraordinary force in some of the stories, sadly and strangely in others.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
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Read Alice Munro’s dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection.‘Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature under a vast span of aspects, moods, and pressures’ Sunday TimesA woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends, and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past - and instead, discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
236 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2010
149 kr
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A “profound and beautiful” (Francine Prose, O: The Oprah Magazine) collection of ten stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “Filled with subtle and far-reaching thematic reverberations. . . . Munro has an empathy so pitch-perfect . . . you are drawn deftly into another world.”—The New York Times Book Review A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, The Economist, Slate With clarity and ease, Alice Munro renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories about the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. In the first story, a young wife and mother, suffering from the unbearable pain of losing her three children, gains solace from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other tales uncover the “deep-holes” in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and, in the title story, the yearnings of a nineteenth-century female mathematician.
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Engelska, 2008133 kr
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Alice 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 lose her memory and 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club In story after story in this brilliant new 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 Munros 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 Munros 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
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In eight “riveting [and] lovely” (San Francisco Chronicle) stories, Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro stunningly explores the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. “Superb . . . dazzling . . . Munro’s feel for her own characters is as pure as Chekhov’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Munro is indisputably a master. . . . A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined.”—The Washington Post Book WorldMining the silences and dark discretions of provincial life, the eight tales in The Love of a Good Woman lay bare the seamless connections and shared guilt that bind even the loneliest of individuals. A stroke victim expresses his deepest secret to a young bride in what may be the last act of intimacy left in him. A daughter confronts her father with the open secret of his life. And in the riveting title story, a selfless nurse tending a dying patient discovers the social utility of lies. Sparklingly detailed, unwaveringly courageous, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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A “masterful” (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception.”—Los Angeles Times The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, “a rich exploration of womanhood” (Ms.), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future. In her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that “one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
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The debut novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (The New York Times). “Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.”—Newsweek Rural Ontario, 1940s. 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, opinionated 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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Häftad, Engelska, 2002
272 kr
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro come nine short stories with “the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life” (The New York Times) “In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us, again and again.”—Chicago Tribune FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY In the nine breathtaking stories that make up this collection, Alice Munro creates narratives that loop and swerve like memory, conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a “frizz of reddish hair,” just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girl’s practical joke. A college student visiting her aunt for the first time and recognizing the family furniture stumbles on a long-hidden secret and its meaning in her own life. An inveterate philanderer finds the tables turned when he puts his wife into an old-age home. A young cancer patient stunned by good news discovers a perfect bridge to her suddenly regained future. A woman recollecting an afternoon’s wild lovemaking with a stranger realizes how the memory of that encounter has both changed for her and sustained her through a lifetime. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best—tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.
E-bok
Engelska, 2016177 kr
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The Three Stories that Inspired the MovieWith a foreword by Pedro AlmodóvarAlice Munro is cherished for her exquisite, affecting meditations on the human heart. In these three linked stories, “Chance,” “Soon,” and “Silence”—which, together, inspired Pedro Almodóvar’s film Julieta—her virtuosic talents are once again on display. The stories follow a schoolteacher named Juliet as she is swept up by fate: meeting an older man on a train and starting an affair; later, visiting her parents as a young mother; and later still, searching for contact with her estranged daughter. As with all of Munro’s characters, Juliet radiates warmth, dignity, and hope, even as she is unflinching in the face of betrayal and loss. In Munro’s hands, her journey is as surprising, extraordinary, and precious as life itself.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
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A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.