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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Dear Life by Alice Munro

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  The release of a new collection of Alice Munro's short stories is always a cause for celebration, and this latest volume is no exception. Capturing the essence of humanity, the chance encounters and moments of fate which influence the whole course of a life, and the very real strangeness of even the most ordinary life. Set mostly in her native Canada, the last four stories are loosely autobiographical, forming an unprecedented admission into Munro's own childhood.

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  Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

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  With her bold, unflinching narratives, utterly believable characters and clear prose, this is one of Alice Munro's most self-assured and satisfying collections of short stories. The title story is one of the most dazzling and beautiful we've read.

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  Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage by Alice Munro

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  One of the most exciting contemporary short story writers, Canadian Alice Munro writes with deadly accuracy and occasional cruelty. Contains the story The Bear Came Over the Mountain about a woman with Alzheimer's, which was made into a film with Julie Christie. Highly recommended.

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  New Selected Stories by Alice Munro

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  A covetable edition of Munro's finest work from the past fifteen years. Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, these stories are nothing short of perfection. The typical subjects of love, infidelity and chance encounters are transformed into crucial meditations on the essential human condition in Munro's searing, emotive prose.

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  The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

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  This masterful short story writer weaves together fact and fiction in 12 stories relating to family, from her grandparents in Edinburgh, to her parents in Ontario and her own adolescence in 1950s Canada. Winner of the International Man Booker Prize, Munro is one of the best authors of contemporary short fiction.