The Moons of Jupiter
$30.83
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2004
Summary
2021 sees all of Alice Munro’s backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers.
THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken—the joys, fears, loves, and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099458364 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099458365 |
| Author: | Alice Munro |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
She has a touch of genius
‘Witty, subtle, passionate, The Moons of Jupiter is exceptionally knowledgeable about the content and movement - the entanglements and entailments - of individual human feeling. And the knowledge it offers can’t be looked up elsewhere’ New York Times
About The Author
Alice Munro
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She 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 Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was 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. Alice Munro died in 2024.
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