內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介:A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction
A Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club
In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer. Illumined by Munro’s unflinching insight, these lives draw us in with their quiet depth and surprise us with unexpected turns. And while most are set in her signature territory around Lake Huron, some strike even closer to home: an astonishing suite of four autobiographical tales offers an unprecedented glimpse into Munro’s own childhood. Exalted by her clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, Dear Life shows how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.
作者簡(jiǎn)介:
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven new collections of stories-Dance of the Happy Shades; Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You; The Beggar Maid; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; and a volume of Selected Stories-as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Man Booker International Prize, 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 United States' National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.
Alice Munro divides her time between Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron, and Comox, British Columbia.
艾麗絲·門羅(Alice Munro,1931.07.10~),加拿大女作家,被稱為“加拿大的契科夫”。艾麗絲·門羅1931年生于加拿大加拿大渥太華,大部分時(shí)間都在這個(gè)安靜的城市度過(guò),少女時(shí)代即開(kāi)始寫(xiě)小說(shuō)。門羅以短篇小說(shuō)見(jiàn)長(zhǎng),截至2013年10月,創(chuàng)作了11部短篇小說(shuō)集和1部類似故事集的長(zhǎng)篇小說(shuō)。1968年,門羅發(fā)表第一部短篇小說(shuō)集《快樂(lè)影子舞》(Dance of the Happy Shades),并獲得加拿大總督文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)。其代表作有《好蔭涼之舞》和《逃離》。門羅多次獲獎(jiǎng),其中包括三次加拿大總督獎(jiǎng),兩次吉勒獎(jiǎng),以及英聯(lián)邦作家獎(jiǎng)、歐亨利獎(jiǎng)、筆會(huì)馬拉穆德獎(jiǎng)和美國(guó)全國(guó)書(shū)評(píng)人獎(jiǎng)等。2009年獲得第三屆布克國(guó)際獎(jiǎng)。
2013年10月10日,艾麗絲·門羅獲得2013年諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng),獲獎(jiǎng)理由是:“當(dāng)代短篇小說(shuō)大師?!睈?ài)麗絲·門羅是諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)歷史上獲此殊榮的第13位女性作家。