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Dance of the Happy Shades
por Munro, Alice
- Usado
- Perto de Excelente
- Condição
- Perto de Excelente
- Livreiro
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Sobre este item
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1968. Undetermined. near fine. 1st edition, 2nd printing. xiv,224pp. Octavo. The novelist Jane Rule's copy, with a bookplate, "From the library of Jane Rule and Helen Sonthoff", to the ffep. Light green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very light bumping to head and base of spine, moderate bumping to top back corner. Spine has slight forward lean. Mild foxing to top and fore-edge of text block. In black pink and green dust jacket, slightly faded and rubbed, now in Mylar. Second state, with gold sticker affixed to front of dust jacket, "Winner of Governor General's Award for Literature 1968". Author's first book a collection of short stories, winner of the 1968 Governor General's Award for fiction. 1968
Sinopse
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.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 140444
- Título
- Dance of the Happy Shades
- Autor
- Munro, Alice
- Formato/Encadernação
- Undetermined
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Editorial
- Ryerson Press
- Local de publicação
- Toronto
- Data de publicação
- 1968
- Palavras-chave
- Association Copy|Candian Lit.
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