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My sister slept with the light on until she was 27. She rightfully blames me. I would leap out of closets with my hands made into claws. I would... Continue »

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The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.

"[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

About the Author

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven new collections of stories-Dance of the Happy Shades; Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You; The Beggar Maid; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; and a volume of Selected Stories-as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Man Booker International Prize, 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 United States' National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.Alice Munro divides her time between Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron, and Comox, British Columbia.

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: hopekenzi, July 10, 2008 (view all comments by hopekenzi)
its a good book.
too bad we don't study it in my school.
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ISBN:: 9780679729570
Author:: Munro, Alice
Publisher:: Vintage Books
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Literary
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Social life and customs
Subject:: Short Stories (single author)
Subject:: Literature
Subject:: British and irish
Subject:: Ontario
Subject:: Ontario Social life and customs Fiction.
Subject:: Stories (single author)
Subject:: Literature-A to Z
Edition Number:: 1
Edition Description:: Trade paper
Series:: Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
Series Volume:: 0000
Publication Date:: 19910531
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 288
Dimensions:: 8.07x5.20x.67 in. .54 lbs.

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