Open Secrets

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1995
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`A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion' Independent Open Secrets, Nobel Prize in Literature winner Alice Munro's eighth book, consists of eight stories, each one as rich as a full 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

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`A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion' Independent Open Secrets, Nobel Prize in Literature winner Alice Munro's eighth book, consists of eight stories, each one as rich as a full 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

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: 25
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09 Mar 1995
ISBN 10: 009945971X
ISBN 13: 9780099459712
Book Overview: **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** An illuminating collection from one of the most celebrated story writers of our time

Media Reviews

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

Author Bio

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has 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 The Beggar Maid, and has been 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. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron in Canada.