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Lives of Girls and Women is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971. [1] [2] Although described and marketed as a novel, in form it resembles a collection of interlinked short stories, with discrete chapters narrated by the main character, Del Jordan.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Lives of Girls and Women: A Novel is the only novel by Canadian author, Alice Munro. It is an impressively clear-eyed portrayal of life in rural Ontario in the 1940s. The social complexities women encounter in that era are revealed with astounding literary and emotional depth.
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About Lives of Girls and Women. The debut novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (The New York Times). “Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.”—Newsweek Rural Ontario, 1940s.
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Feb 13, 2021 · Lives of girls and women by Munro, Alice, 1931-Publication date 1990 Topics Young women -- Fiction, Young women, Canada -- Fiction, Canada Publisher
Dec 21, 2011 · Lives of Girls and women was like listening to a story my Grandma would have told. It was like being transported back to her time on the prairies in the 1930's. This was situated slightly later, and in north-western Ontario, but the feelings, sentiments and Canadiana that appeared throughout the book made me feel like I was a kid again, waiting ...
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Jul 1, 1997 · Paperback – International Edition, July 1, 1997. Lives of Girls and Women is the intensely readable, touching and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through an uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience. As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her ...
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Dec 21, 2011 · Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories—including Dear Life, Runaway, and Too Much Happiness—as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women.Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International ...
