{"product_id":"dance-of-the-happy-shades-and-other-stories-9780679781516","title":"Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFifteen stunning short stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, \"a true master of the form\" (Salman Rushdie).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"How does one know when one is in the grip of art--of a major talent? . . . It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA young girl gets an unexpected glimpse into her father's past when she realizes the sales call they've made one summer afternoon during the Great Depression is to his old sweetheart. A married woman, returning home after the death of her invalid mother, tries to release the sister who'd stayed behind as their mother's caretaker. The audience at a children's piano recital receives a surprising lesson in the power of art to transform when a not-quite-right student performs with unexpected musicality and a spirit of joy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDance of the Happy Shades\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, these tales are luminous acts of attention to those vivid moments when revelation emerges from the layers of experience that lie behind even the most everyday events and lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women, \u003c\/i\u003eand two volumes of \u003ci\u003eSelected Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591340396818,"sku":"9780679781516","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6c350fb0-4a96-46a0-bfb3-32f7693517b3.jpg?v=1732089924","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dance-of-the-happy-shades-and-other-stories-9780679781516","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}