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Dance of the Happy Shades
Anne Enright
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Description for Dance of the Happy Shades
Paperback. Includes stories that 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. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
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 Times
Alice 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 Literature
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 200
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099273776
SKU
V9780099273776
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99-99
About Anne Enright
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.
Reviews for Dance of the Happy Shades
The finest writer of short stories working in the English language today
The Times
The greatest living short story writer
A. S. Byatt
Sunday Times
A remarkable writer whose major characters emerge in shining clarity... A major talent is at work here
Los Angeles Times
Munro's power of analysis, of sensations and thoughts is almost Proustian in its sureness
New Statesman
Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to last
Observer
The Times
The greatest living short story writer
A. S. Byatt
Sunday Times
A remarkable writer whose major characters emerge in shining clarity... A major talent is at work here
Los Angeles Times
Munro's power of analysis, of sensations and thoughts is almost Proustian in its sureness
New Statesman
Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to last
Observer