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Open Secrets: Stories
Contributor(s): Munro, Alice (Author)
ISBN: 0679755624     ISBN-13: 9780679755623
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $15.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 1995
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Annotation: In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada.
"Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life."--"New York Times Book Review
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors)
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Psychological
Dewey: FIC
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 4.87" W x 8.37" (0.49 lbs) 304 pages
 
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013

In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada.

Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life.--New York Times Book Review