{"product_id":"hateship-friendship-courtship-loveship-marriage-alice-munro","title":"Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage (Alice Munro)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo one could possibly dispute Munro's greatness' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind, and boxed away, it's as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully.\u003cbr\u003eWomen look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways in a collection filled with both underlying heartbreak and hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAlice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eWho Do You Think You Are? \u003c\/i\u003e(previously published as \u003ci\u003eThe Beggar Maid\u003c\/i\u003e), 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-Format, Englisch, 336 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65814202089821,"sku":"K010689394","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1068939400001A.jpg?v=1788547916","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/hateship-friendship-courtship-loveship-marriage-alice-munro","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}