{"product_id":"the-progress-of-love-paperback","title":"The Progress of Love - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\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\u003eAlice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, \u003cb\u003eThe Love of a Good Woman\u003c\/b\u003e, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. \u003cbr\u003eA divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario and attended the University of Western Ontario (now Western University), studying journalism and English. Her first collection of stories was published in 1968 as \u003ci\u003eDance of the Happy Shades\u003c\/i\u003e, which garnered much acclaim and won the Governor General's Award for English fiction that year. Three years later, she published her only novel, \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women\u003c\/i\u003e. Over the next few decades, she published many more short story collections, including \u003ci\u003eWho Do You Think You Are?\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Moons of Jupiter\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e, from which a story was later adapted into the two-time Academy Award-winning movie, \u003ci\u003eAway from Her\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRunaway\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe View from Castle Rock\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories appeared regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1978 Munro received her second Governor General's Award for \u003ci\u003eWho Do You Think You Are?\u003c\/i\u003e and her third in 1986 with \u003ci\u003eThe Progress of Love\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2009 she won the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. Her final story collection, \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e, came in 2012, and the next year, the same year she retired from writing, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature, hailed as the \"master of the contemporary short story.\" Munro has also been the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the W.H. Smith Award, two Giller Prizes, several Trillium Prizes, the Jubilee Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award, among many others. She lives in Millbrook, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 7.97 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47255972315385,"sku":"9780375724701","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/0NjyFpjlVL9780375724701.webp?v=1768730766","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-progress-of-love-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}