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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Munro, Alice (1931-....)
Titre(s) : Family furnishings [Texte imprimé] : selected stories, 1995-2014 / Alice Munro ; foreword by Jane Smiley
Édition : First edition
Publication : New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-620 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : The Love of a good woman ; Jakarta ; The children stay ; My mother's dream ;
Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage ; Family furnishings ; Post
and beam ; The bear came over the mountain ; The view from Castle Rock ; Working
for a living ; Hired girl ; Home ; Runaway ; Soon ; Passion ; Dimensions ;
Wood ; Child's play ; Too much happiness ; To reach Japan ; Amundsen ; The train
; The eye ; Dear life.
Note(s) : "From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature-perhaps our most beloved
author-a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections
of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994). By all
accounts, no Nobel Prize in recent years has garnered the enthusiastic reception that
Alice Munro's has, and in its wake, her reputation and readership has skyrocketed
worldwide. Now, Family Furnishings will bring us twenty-five of her most accomplished,
most powerfully affecting stories, most of them set in the territory she has so brilliantly
made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario. Subtly honed
with the author's hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate
the ordinary but quite extraordinary particularity in the lives of men, women, and
children as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, head out into the unknown,
suffer defeat, find a way to be in the world. As the Nobel Prize presentation speech
reads in part: "Reading one of Alice Munro's texts is like watching a cat walk across
a laid dinner table. A brief short story can often cover decades, summarizing a life,
as she moves deftly between different periods. No wonder Alice Munro is often able
to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred.
She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and ... the master of the contemporary short story.""
; "A selection of short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author, Alice Munro"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Smiley, Jane (1949-....). Préfacier
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781101874103. - ISBN 1101874104 (rel.). - ISBN 9781101872352. - ISBN 1101872357.
- ISBN 9781101874110 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb444994794
Notice n° :
FRBNF44499479
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