DEAR LIFE HC

Εκδότης: CHATTO & WINDUS
Συγγραφέας: ALICE MUNRO
Isbn: 9780701187842
Διαστάσεις: 240Χ162Χ31
Αριθμός σελίδων: 336
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 14/11/2012
Διαθεσιμότητα: ΔΙΑΘΕΣΙΜΟ Αποστολή σε 5 - 10 εργάσιμες ημέρες (θα ενημερωθείτε με email για την ακριβή ημερομηνία, ανάλογα με την διαθεσιμότητα του εκδότη)

Τιμή: ~~27,01 €~~ 22,93 €

Περιγραφη

"**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Many of these stories are grounded in Munro's home territory - the small Canadian towns around Lake Huron - but there are departures too. A poet, finding herself in alien territory at her first literary party, is rescued by a seasoned newspaper editor, and is soon hurtling across the continent, young child in tow, towards a hoped-for - but completely unplanned - meeting. A young soldier, returning to his fiancee from the Second World War, steps off the train before his stop and onto the farm of another woman, beginning a life on the move. The book ends with four powerful pieces, 'autobiographical in feeling', set during the time of Munro's o