Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition (Vintage International)

ISBN: 0804173567

Author: Munro, Alice

Condition: Used

Six of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munros revelatory short stories that unfold the wordless secrets that lie at the center of the human experience.Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical . . . the master of the contemporary short story. . . . Munro, like few others, [has] come close to solving the greatest mystery of them all: the human heart and its caprices.-From the Presentation Speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 2013Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout Alice Munros storied career: the title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, as well as Differently, from Friend of My Youth; Carried Away, from Open Secrets; and In Sight of the Lake from Dear Life.This edition includes the Nobel Prize Presentation Speech