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Lives of Girls and Women

A Novel

A Novel

By Alice Munro

By Alice Munro

By Alice Munro

By Alice Munro

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Category: Women's Fiction

Category: Women's Fiction

Paperback $16.95

Feb 13, 2001 | ISBN 9780375707490

Ebook $12.99

Dec 21, 2011 | ISBN 9780307814555

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    About Lives of Girls and Women

    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

    The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman–is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl’s growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940’s.

    Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother’s boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence.

    Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro’s unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.

    About Lives of Girls and Women

    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

    The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman–is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl’s growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940’s.

    Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother’s boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence.

    Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro’s unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.

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    About Alice Munro

    Alice 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, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been… More about Alice Munro

    About Alice Munro

    Alice 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, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been… More about Alice Munro

    Product Details

    Category: Women’s Fiction

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 13, 2001 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375707490

    Category: Women’s Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 21, 2011 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780307814555

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    ?Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.??Newsweek

    Awards

    Man Booker International Prize WINNER 2009

    Nobel Prize WINNER 2013

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