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23%OFFAnne Enright - Friend of My Youth - 9780099820604 - V9780099820604
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Friend of My Youth

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Description for Friend of My Youth Paperback. A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past - and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.

Read Alice Munro’s dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection.

‘Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature under a vast span of aspects, moods, and pressures’ Sunday Times

A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends, and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past - and instead, discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099820604
SKU
V9780099820604
Shipping Time
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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 Friend of My Youth
Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made last
Observer
Alice Munro's stories, Friend of My Youth, are wonderful: intricate, deep, full of absorbing and funny detail, and opening into painful and tender memories with cunningly concealed skill
Independent on Sunday
She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries
Cynthia Ozick Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature under a vast span of aspects, moods and pressures
Sunday Times
The particular brilliance of Alice Munro is that in range and depth her short stories are almost novels
Daily Telegraph

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