Dance of the Happy Shades And Other Stories
eBook - 2011
Fifteen stunning short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “a true master of the form” (Salman Rushdie). “How does one know when one is in the grip of art—of a major talent? . . . It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro’s stories.”—The Wall Street Journal A young girl gets an unexpected glimpse into her father’s past when she realizes the sales call they’ve made one summer afternoon during the Great Depression is to his old sweetheart. A married woman, returning home after the death of her invalid mother, tries to release the sister who’d stayed behind as their mother’s caretaker. The audience at a children’s piano recital receives a surprising lesson in the power of art to transform wh...en a not-quite-right student performs with unexpected musicality and a spirit of joy. In Dance of the Happy Shades, Alice...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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- English
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- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 993 MB |
ISBN | 9780307814548 |
Release Date | 12/21/2011 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B006F20XI6 |
Release Date | 12/21/2011 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780307814548 |
Release Date | 12/21/2011 |