Open Secrets Stories
eBook - 2011
Eight stunning stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “a true master of the form” (Salman Rushdie). “Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life.”—The New York Times Book Review In these eight tales, Alice Munro reveals entire lives with a sureness that is nothing less than breathtaking, capturing those moments in which people shrug off old truths, old selves, and what they only thought was fate. In Open Secrets, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly rekindled. 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 Austr...alia. 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...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Language
- English
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- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 988 MB |
ISBN | 9780307814616 |
Release Date | 12/21/2011 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B006F2CITI |
Release Date | 12/21/2011 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780307814616 |
Release Date | 12/21/2011 |