{"product_id":"vintage-munro-nobel-prize-edition-9780804173568","title":"Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eSix of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro's revelatory short stories that unfold the wordless secrets that lie at the center of the human experience.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e--From the Presentation Speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eVintage Munro \u003c\/i\u003eincludes stories from throughout Alice Munro's storied career: the title stories from her collections \u003ci\u003eThe Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \"Differently,\" from \u003ci\u003eFriend of My Youth; \u003c\/i\u003e\"Carried Away,\" from \u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets; \u003c\/i\u003eand \"In Sight of the Lake\" from \u003ci\u003eDear Life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition includes the Nobel Prize Presentation Speech\u003c\/b\u003e\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 fourteen 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, 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":50571380031762,"sku":"9780804173568","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9b7b5310-fae2-4af6-bdf6-fcec4f690e4c.jpg?v=1731964180","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vintage-munro-nobel-prize-edition-9780804173568","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}