Dance of the Happy Shades: Stories by Alice Munro
by MUNRO, Alice
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About This Item
Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature for her work as master of the contemporary short story, Alice Munro is probably the best-known Canadian writer. Dance of the Happy Shades was her first collection of stories and won the 1968 Governor General's Award for English Fiction, as indicated by the label on this dustjacket.
Synopsis
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
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140198
- Title
- Dance of the Happy Shades: Stories by Alice Munro
- Author
- MUNRO, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Ryerson Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Canadian Literature, Short stories
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