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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

    $14.99 CAD

  • 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

    $27.99 CAD

  • 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

    $39.99 CAD

  • 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

    $42.99 CAD

  • 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

    $18.99 CAD

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

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    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Love of a Good Woman

    by Alice Munro ...
    In eight stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes—the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met—the summer, as it turns out, that the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Alice Munro's Best

    Selected Stories

    by Alice Munro ...
    In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. . . . Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.”This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls her “devoted international readership.” Long-time fans of her stories will enjoy meeting ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Orr

    My Story

    by Bobby Orr ...
    One of the greatest sports figures of all time at last breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself.Number 4. It is just about the most common number in hockey, but invoke that number and you can only be talking about one player -- the man often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game: Bobby Orr.From 1966 through the mid-70s he could change a game just by stepping on the ... Read more

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  • A Farewell to Arms

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Series series Nobel Prize
    A Farewell to Arms is a poignant exploration of love, war, and the fragility of human existence during the tumultuous backdrop of World War I. Ernest Hemingway crafts a narrative that intertwines the personal and the universal, delving into themes of sacrifice, disillusionment, and resilience. Through the experiences of Lieutenant Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, the novel examines the ... Read more

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