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Open Secrets
Open Secrets
paperback
Published:
9 March, 1995
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Description
Open Secrets consists of eight luminous and poetic stories, each one as rich as a novel.
'A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion' Independent
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.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Prizes
Winner of WH Smith Annual Literary Award 1995,Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1995
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099459712 |
| ISBN10 | 009945971X |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Item Weight | 209 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 18 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
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
Alice Munro writes almost perfect stories: beautifully cadenced, both wildly funny and gravely sad... Like crumpled balls of paper, they unfold in our minds after reading them * Elle *
The Great One -- Jonathan Franzen
A book that dazzles with its faith in language and life * New York Times *
She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries -- Cynthia Ozick
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Author's Bio
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.