Lives of Girls and Women

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Beschreibung:

Del Jordan wants sex, knowledge and a larger life than her small town can provide.

Del Jordan grows up on the Flats Road near Jubilee, Ontario, during and after the Second World War. Childhood means frogs, songs, family stories, her eccentric Uncle Benny, her mother's ambitions, church, school, gossip, fear and desire.

As Del moves toward adolescence, she becomes impatient for the larger life she sees in books, films, and the world beyond her small town. Munro follows her through, first love, loss and the daily dramas that make girlhood both comic and dangerous.

Alice Munro's only novel is essential literary fiction for readers interested in coming-of-age novels, adolescence, mothers and daughters, female desire and the awkward beginning of self-knowledge.


'Superb' Independent

'Exact and unflinching' Guardian

'In Munro's work, nothing can be predicted. Emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate' Margaret Atwood

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Über die Urheberinnen:

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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Produktdetails:

• Autor:in: Alice Munro
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• Seitenumfang: 319 Seiten
• ISBN: 9781784700881