Collection of short stories from a Canadian author whose previous titles include "The Progress Of Love, Friend Of My Youth" and "The Beggar Maid". "That Munro is a great writer of short stories should, by now, go without saying. She is also one of the two or three best writers of fiction (of any length) now alive. The title story of this collection is one of her masterpieces..." "Sunday Times".
"**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro's stories surprise and delight, turning lives into art, expanding our world and shedding light on the strange workings of the human heart."
"**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. From 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 Literature** In this perfect collection, each of Alice Munro's glorious stories is as satisfying and richly crafted as a novel. In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The 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. There is in this collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope, there are second chances - here are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by the throat, who have moved on and can dare to conjure up the hidden memories, daring to go beyond what is remembered. **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Moving, ribald and semi-autobiographical, Lives of Girls and Women is the only novel from Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances. Just like the girls in the movies, she wants to get started on real life. In her only novel, Alice Munro turns her eye to the frustrations, embarrassments, glee and bewilderment of adolescence, and to the brushes with sex, death, violence and birth that shape the lives of girls and women.
Po doskonałym debiucie sprzed 45 lat, Wydawnictwo Literackie przedstawia polskim wielbicielom opowiadań Alice Munro najnowszy tom kanadyjskiej pisarki. Książka Drogie życie miała swoją światową premierę w listopadzie 2012 roku, a już w maju tego roku trafi do naszych księgarń. Scenerią dla prostych, czasami strasznych, innym razem ciepłych historii stały się tym razem miasteczka otaczające kanadyjskie jezioro Huron. Los niemal wszystkich bohaterów determinują wydarzenia związane z II wojną światową. Tom Drogie życie to Alice Munro w najlepszym wydaniu.
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