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  • Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives

    A Biography

    by Robert Thacker ...
    This is the book about one of the world’s great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine.For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro’s life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munro’s admirers everywhere.By following “the parallel ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013

    by Robert Thacker ...
    In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, ending with encompassing afterword, this collection provides a selection of essays and reviews that reflect their ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Alice Munro's Late Style

    'Writing is the Final Thing'

    by Professor Robert Thacker ...
    Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'.Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book focuses on Munro's art of recursion - an approach that has been evident throughout her career but came to the fore in her last ... Read more

    Was $97.99 USD Now $32.99 USD

  • April Twilights (1903)

    by Willa Cather ...
    Before she wrote her prose masterpieces, Willa Cather produced striking poems, which were collected in 1903 in April Twilights. It was her literary debut, preceding the publication of O Pioneers! by nine years. In her introduction, distinguished Cather scholar Bernice Slote notes that this early edition of April Twilights restores what had been "an almost lost, certainly blurred, portion of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cather Studies, Volume 11

    Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

    by Cather Studies ...
    Series series Cather Studies
    Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux examines Willa Cather’s position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning with a prologue locating Cather’s position, this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related essays.The first section ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Alice Munro

    'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', 'Runaway', 'Dear Life'

    by Professor Robert Thacker ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), and her final ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic.This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power of spirituality to move and shape your ... Read more

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  • The Moons of Jupiter

    by Alice Munro ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Eleven “witty, subtle, [and] passionate” (The New York Times Book Review) stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “a true master of the form” (Salman Rushdie)“Alice Munro’s fine and intelligent stories are like Edward Hopper paintings, lit with a relentless clarity, and richly illuminating the perplexities of human connection, their possibilities and pain.”—Washington Post Book ... Read more

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  • The Art of Memoir

    by Mary Karr ...
    Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed ... Read more

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  • Runaway

    by Alice Munro ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Eight “sparkling [and] beautifully drawn” (Entertainment Weekly) stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro“Each of the stories in Runaway contains enough lived life to fill a typical novel.”—The Boston GlobeOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyWINNER OF THE GILLER ... ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Dear Life

    Stories

    by Alice Munro ...
    Series series Vintage International
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Fourteen stunning short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the great short story writers not just of our time but of any time” (The New York Times Book Review).“Wise and unforgettable. Dear Life is a wondrous gift; a reminder of why Munro’s work endures.”—The Boston GlobeA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Vogue, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Farewell to Arms - Unabridged

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    "A Farewell to Arms" was Ernest Hemingway's first best-seller and the acclaim garnered by this book put his name on the 20th century literary map. The novel is based on Hemingway's own experiences serving as an ambulance driver during the Italian campaign in World War I and has often been cited as one of the best war novels ever written.The story follows the service of Frederic Henry, an American ... Read more

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