Open Secrets
by Munro, Alice
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
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About This Item
Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer whose work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. She is the recipient of several awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature (2013) as a "master of the contemporary short story"; 3 time winner of the Governor General's Award; 2 time winner of the Giller Prize and, winner of The Man Booker Prize.
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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.
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- Bookseller
- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2940
- Title
- Open Secrets
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0771066996
- ISBN 13
- 9780771066993
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- 1994
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