Open Secrets
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:9th Mar '95
£9.99
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**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** An illuminating collection from one of the most celebrated story writers of our time
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
'A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion' Independent
Open Secrets, Alice Munro's eighth book, consists of eight luminous and poetic stories, each one as rich as a novel. Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.
'Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature' The Sunday Times
Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability, [Alice Munro is] an unrivalled chronicler of human nature * Sunday Times *
A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion * Independent *
Alice Munro excites the writer in me - there is something new to learn from her in every sentence * A. S. Byatt *
Alice Munro's stories are miraculous -- Lucy Hughes-Hallet * Sunday Times *
Open Secrets by the wonderful Alice Munro, is a collection of short stories, written with exquisite style -- Joanna Trollope
- Winner of WH Smith Annual Literary Award 1995
- Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1995
ISBN: 9780099459712
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm
Weight: 213g
304 pages