Alice Munro
Autor(a) de Runaway
About the Author
Alice Munro was born Alice Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario on July 10, 1931. She published her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, while a student at the University of Western Ontario in 1950. She left the university in 1951 to get married and start a family. In 1972 she became Writer in Residence mostrar mais at the University of Western Ontario. Her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, was published in 1968 and won the Governor General's Award, Canada's highest literary prize. Her other works include Lives of Girls and Women, The View from Castle Rock, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, Too Much Happiness, and Dear Life. She has received several awards including the Governor General's Award for fiction for Who Do You Think You Are? and The Progress of Love, the Giller Prize for Runaway in 2004, the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work, and the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. Also, in 2013, her title Dear Life: Stories made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Alice Munro
Il ponte galleggiante - Ortiche 16 exemplares
Julieta (Movie Tie-in Edition): Three Stories That Inspired the Movie (Vintage International) (2016) 14 exemplares
Nettles 4 exemplares
Meneseteung 4 exemplares
Too Much Happiness, Dance fo the Happy Shades, Lives of Girls and Women, Who do you Think you Are?, Moon of Jupiter,… 4 exemplares
Child's Play 3 exemplares
The Love of a Good Woman [short story] 3 exemplares
Amundsen 3 exemplares
Corrie 2 exemplares
Lost in Transmission 2 exemplares
Boys and Girls 2 exemplares
Fiction 2 exemplares
Bardon Bus 2 exemplares
Dimension 2 exemplares
Prue [short story] 2 exemplares
How I Met My Husband 2 exemplares
Munro, Alice Archive 1 exemplar
Trốn Chạy 1 exemplar
Sem título 1 exemplar
Жребий; Лицо 1 exemplar
Leaving Maverley 1 exemplar
“Walker Brothers Cowboy” 1 exemplar
"The Peace of Utrecht" 1 exemplar
In fuga 1 exemplar
E SHTRENJTA JETE 1 exemplar
Egy joravalo nö szerelme 1 exemplar
Runaway -- First 1st Edition 1 exemplar
Rare Antique FRIEND OF MY YOUTH Alice Munro NOBEL PRIZE 1st Edition First Printing STORIES 1 exemplar
Fugitives de Munro Alice (2009) Broché 1 exemplar
Rare Antique OPEN SECRETS Alice Munro 1st Edition NOBEL PRIZE Stories First Printing Fiction 1 exemplar
Save the reaper 1 exemplar
Free Radicals 1 exemplar
Nemico, amico, amante... (Super ET) 1 exemplar
Munro Alice 1 exemplar
Stinkreich : eine Erzählung. 1 exemplar
A Real Life 1 exemplar
Silence [short story] 1 exemplar
Fathers (short story) 1 exemplar
La visita (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
Storie finite male (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
Mrs Cross e Mrs Kidd (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
Festa di fine estate (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
L'incidente (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
Dulse (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
The Albanian Virgin 1 exemplar
Train 1 exemplar
Teddy Tum Tum's Boating Trip 1 exemplar
Scary old sex: stories 1 exemplar
Queenie [Short story] 1 exemplar
Axis 1 exemplar
Wilderness Station {short story} 1 exemplar
Wood 1 exemplar
Some Women 1 exemplar
Face 1 exemplar
Deep-Holes 1 exemplar
Wenlock Edge 1 exemplar
Colophon (in Troppa felicità) 1 exemplar
Die Frau Einer Frau (German Edition) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 915 exemplares
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 504 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuidor — 377 exemplares
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 174 exemplares
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (1999) — Autor, algumas edições — 29 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Laidlaw, Alice Anne
- Data de nascimento
- 1931-07-10
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Local de nascimento
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
- Locais de residência
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Comox, British Columbia, Canada - Educação
- University of Western Ontario
- Ocupações
- bookstore owner
short story writer
novelist - Relações
- Munro, Sheila (daughter)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1992)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (2013)
CBA Libris Award ( [2005])
CBA Libris Award ( [1999])
PEN/Malamud Award (1997)
Lannan Literary Award ( [1995])
CBA Libris Award ( [1995]) (mostrar todos 9)
Lorne Pierce Medal (1993)
Molson Prize (1990)
Marian Engel Award (1986) - Agente
- William Loverd
Membros
Discussions
March 2015: Alice Munro em Monthly Author Reads (Julho 2015)
Three Cheers for Alice Munro! em Canadian Bookworms (Outubro 2013)
Alice Munro em Book talk (Outubro 2013)
Críticas
Listas
Favourite Books (1)
Five star books (1)
to get (1)
Big Jubilee List (1)
Booker Prize (1)
2000s decade (1)
100 New Classics (1)
Bedbooks (1)
Female Author (3)
Canada (2)
Unread books (1)
Read These Too (1)
To Read (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 133
- Also by
- 67
- Membros
- 27,147
- Popularidade
- #762
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 703
- ISBN
- 865
- Línguas
- 31
- Marcado como favorito
- 191
Media Audio
Read by: Kimberly Farr, Arthur Morley
Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
This collection of ten short stories was my introduction to Alice Munro. I was surprised at the diversity of her tales and I must confess I’m still not sure of her sub-genre. Too Much Happiness is a mixed bag.
My favorite story was Wood”, a story about a carpenter’s love of trees and the revival of his love for his wife after an accident in a forest’s edge. I was absolutely engrossed in the description of the trees, each type being described in the minute detail of their individual shape, bark color and texture, leaf and size. I felt like leaping out of bed and walking to Central Park to examine aspects of trees that I’ve never paid attention to. How could I have lived all these years and not looked?
I least-liked the title story. It’s five chapters and follows a 19th century scientist and her lover through her long trip from Russia to the French Riviera and back again. Had it been the first story I read I would most likely have marked the book as a DNF. I could not see the point of the rambling account, the characters were uninteresting, the events unremarkable, and the plot unintelligible.
Of the rest “Holes”, a story of a mother of whose eldest son drops out to live squats in Toronto, interested me more. More convincing than the title story it conveyed emotion and was anchored in a time and place that I can understand.
I have to believe that this collection is not representative of Munro’s writings. I would have preferred stories of equivalent length rather than the nine stories and a novella. I feel that I haven’t come to grips with this writer, but still look forward to reading more of her work. There is something there, but what is it?… (mais)