{"product_id":"lives-of-girls-and-women-paperback","title":"Lives of Girls and Women - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Munro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of \u003cb\u003eThe Love of a Good Woman\u003c\/b\u003e--is an insightful, honest book, \"autobiographical in form but not in fact,\" that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, \"autobiographical in form but not in fact,\" that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. \u003cbr\u003eDel Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. \u003cbr\u003eThrough these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women, \u003c\/i\u003eand two volumes of \u003ci\u003eSelected Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 13, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762274730272,"sku":"9780375707490","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/051c11d788f9a758b56a35f2df6e455d.webp?v=1780218657","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lives-of-girls-and-women-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}