**WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**

**WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE**

Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant collection of short stories.

Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.

'She is so damn good' Anne Enright

'Deep and surprising and unsparing' Guardian

The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize

About the Author
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.

Reviews
Deep and surprising and unsparing -- Helen Simpson * Guardian *
As rich and astonishing as anything she has ever done before * New York Review of Books *
In this book Munro has laid bare the foundations of her fiction as never before. Lovers of her writing must hope this is not, in fact, her finale. But if it is, it's spectacular -- Ruth Scurr * Daily Telegraph *
Another dazzling collection of short stories, provincial and universal in equal measure -- Sara Wheeler * Observer *
A slight sense of withholding gives Munro's prose its gracefulness, and allows intimacy without danger. After many years, many collections and many wonderful stories, readers may feel they know everything about Alice Munro, especially as so many of her characters lead lives similar to her own. In fact, we know very little about her. This is one of the reasons readers become dizzy with love for Munro. This other reason is that she is so damn good -- Anne Enright * Guardian *



Book Information
ISBN 9780099578642
Author Alice Munro
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 181g
Dimensions(mm) 178mm * 110mm * 20mm