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Now 78, Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published fourteen previous books — Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives of Girls and Women, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; Selected Stories; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; The View from Castle Rock; and Alice Munro’s Best. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the recent Man... Read More
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Too Much Happiness
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
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Runaway
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $15.00
In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $15.00
In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Love of a Good Woman
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $15.00
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $15.00
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The View from Castle Rock
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.
A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.
A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Selected Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $16.95
Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $16.95
Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are... Read more >
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Lives of Girls and Women
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's... Read more >
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Open Secrets
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 7, 1995
Price: $14.95
In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 7, 1995
Price: $14.95
In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how... Read more >
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Carried Away
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn... Read more >
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Too Much Happiness
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $40.00
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $40.00
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
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Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that led no less a critic than John Updike to compare her to Chekhov. The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that led no less a critic than John Updike to compare her to Chekhov. The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and... Read more >
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Dance of the Happy Shades
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 11, 1998
Price: $12.00
In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 11, 1998
Price: $12.00
In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario... Read more >
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The Moons of Jupiter
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.00
In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.00
In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are... Read more >
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The Beggar Maid
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.95
In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. the other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.95
In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. the other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she... Read more >
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Friend of My Youth
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.95
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
"[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.95
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
"[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Read more >
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The Progress of Love
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 12, 2000
Price: $14.00
Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades.
A... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 12, 2000
Price: $14.00
Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades.
A... Read more >
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Vintage Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $9.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” —Chicago Tribune
In an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $9.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” —Chicago Tribune
In an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The View from Castle Rock
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $29.95
In stories that are more personal than any that she has written before, Alice Munro pieces her family history into gloriously imagined fiction.
A young boy is taken to Edinburgh Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $29.95
In stories that are more personal than any that she has written before, Alice Munro pieces her family history into gloriously imagined fiction.
A young boy is taken to Edinburgh Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Away from Her
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $9.00
Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” – the basis for Sarah Polley’s film Away From Her — her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to... Read more >
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $9.00
Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” – the basis for Sarah Polley’s film Away From Her — her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to... Read more >
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Emily of New Moon
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1989
Price: $7.95
Lucy Maud Montgomery has been beloved by generations of readers for her Anne of Green Gables stories. In the celebrated Emily trilogy, of which Emily of New Moon is the first volume, Montgomery draws a more realistic portrait of a young girl’s life on Prince Edward Island. The twin threads of... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1989
Price: $7.95
Lucy Maud Montgomery has been beloved by generations of readers for her Anne of Green Gables stories. In the celebrated Emily trilogy, of which Emily of New Moon is the first volume, Montgomery draws a more realistic portrait of a young girl’s life on Prince Edward Island. The twin threads of... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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The Equations of Love
Format: Paperback
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $6.95
In the two novellas that make up The Equations of Love, Ethel Wilson describes ordinary people in perilous circumstances with extraordinary insight and compassion. “Tuesday and Wednesday” reconstructs the events of two days in the life of Mort and Myrtle Johnson, whose uninspired marriage is strangely transformed by the tragic intervention... Read more >
Format: Paperback
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $6.95
In the two novellas that make up The Equations of Love, Ethel Wilson describes ordinary people in perilous circumstances with extraordinary insight and compassion. “Tuesday and Wednesday” reconstructs the events of two days in the life of Mort and Myrtle Johnson, whose uninspired marriage is strangely transformed by the tragic intervention... Read more >
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
A superb new collection from one of our best and best-loved writers. Nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory–a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life.
The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper... Read more >
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
A superb new collection from one of our best and best-loved writers. Nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory–a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life.
The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Love of a Good Woman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $15.00
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $15.00
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Runaway
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer.
The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her... Read more >
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer.
The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Too Much Happiness
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
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