Présentation de l'éditeur
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThese are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro's stories surprise and delight, turning lives into art, expanding our world and shedding light on the strange workings of the human heart.
Revue de presse
She writes with
a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny, apprehension of what goes on -- Jane Shilling ―
Sunday Telegraph
Some of the most
honest, intuitive and exacting fiction, long or short, of our time -- Tom Gatti ―
The Times
Munro's
bold, unflinching narratives have taken the short story places many a novelist has feared to tread... That she does this in a style both calm and deliberate, fluid yet tightly controlled,
stark yet compassionate, is what makes her insights into the human condition so profound -- Mary Crockett ―
Scotsman
Written with veteran assurance,
brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail, these dispatches from the most unsparing reaches of Munro's imagination
confirm her acclaimed place on the highest ground of contemporary fiction -- Peter Kemp ―
Sunday Times
Alice Munro commands enormous respect and almost uncritical adoration from her readers -- Elaine Showalter ―
Literary Review
Biographie de l'auteur
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Port Hope, Ontario, near lake Ontario in Canada.
