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Munro, Alice

 
9780679435754: Open Secrets: Stories
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ISBN 10: 0679435751 ISBN 13: 9780679435754
Editorial: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994

Sinopsis

A powerful collection of short stories in which women take the center stage includes the tale of a heart patient who experiences a revelation about an old love and that of a young woman struggling with a long-hidden secret. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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Alice Munro is the author of seven previous books: a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and six collections of stories -- Dance of the Happy Shades, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, The Beggar Maid, The Moons of Jupiter, The Progress of Love, and Friend of My Youth. The stories in Open Secrets have appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.

She and her husband live in Clinton, Ontario, near Late Huron, and in Comox, British Columbia.

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collection of stories -- the finest yet from one of the most brilliant writers of fiction at work today -- whole lives, whole worlds, unfold with an ease, a richness, an absolute "rightness" that are breathtaking.

These are stories in which women are central. They are about lovers found and lovers lost but lodged still in the subconscious, about secrets that change lives, about people whose histories are opening out or coming to an end. Their power accumulates layer by layer as time and reality shift, identities become uncertain, truths surface.

A heart patient on a trip to her doctor on a hot summer's day has a revelation about the lasting power of an old love. A long-hidden secret sticks in the consciousness of a young woman, who, in an outrageous but entirely satisfying act, finally rids herself of its thrall. A romantic tale of capture and escape in the wilds of central Europe may or may not be true, but it comforts the hearer, who, on an adventure of her own, i

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Editorial
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0679435751
ISBN 13 
9780679435754
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Número de edición
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9780679755623: Open Secrets: Stories (Vintage International)

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ISBN 10:  0679755624 ISBN 13:  9780679755623
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995
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