Friend of My Youth: Stories -- Alice Munro, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013

The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.

"[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/07/1991
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.07h x 5.20w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780679729570

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/19/1991
Newsweek 10/20/2008 pg. 14

About the Author

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.