{"product_id":"friend-of-my-youth-stories-9780679729570","title":"Friend of My Youth: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"wickedly funny\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, \"one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction\" (Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 unsetting truths about a total stranger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery--the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable--makes \u003ci\u003eFriend of My Youth \u003c\/i\u003ea genuine literary event.\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613388214546,"sku":"9780679729570","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1dd386d6-7e36-4aa8-ab80-ec5df2694426.jpg?v=1732399317","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/friend-of-my-youth-stories-9780679729570","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}