Dear Life

Dear Life

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Summary

**WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**

**WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE**


Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant collection of short 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.

'Another dazzling collection of short stories' Observer

'Alice Munro is one of our greatest living writers
...how lucky we are to have Munro herself and her subtle, intelligent and true work' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power

Reviews

  • Deep and surprising and unsparing
    Helen Simpson, Guardian

About the author

Alice Munro

**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.
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