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Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the pastfifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with awealth of nuance and insight.Written with emotion and empathy, beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, thesestories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author whodeservedly lays claim to being one of the 'major fiction writers of our time'.… (más)
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The love of a good woman: For the last couple of decades, there has been a museum in Walley, dedicated to preserving photos and butter churns and horse harnesses and an old dentist's chair and a cumbersome apple peeler and such curiosities as the pretty little porcelain-and-glass insulators that were used on telegraph poles.
The children stay: Thirty years ago, a family was spending a holiday together on the east coast of Vancouver Island.
My mother's dream: During the night - or during the time she had been asleep - there had been a heavy fall of snow.
Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage: Years ago, before the trains stopped running on so many of the branch lines, a woman with a high, freckled forehead and a frizz of reddish hair came into the railway station and inquired about shipping furniture.
Family furnishings: Alfrida. My father called her Freddie.
The bear came over the mountain: Fiona lived in her parents' house, in the town where she and Grant went to university.
Chance: Halfway through June, in 1965, the term at Torrance House is over.
Soon: Two profiles face each other.
Silence: On the short ferry ride from Buckley Bay to Denman Island, Juliet got out of her car and stood at the front of the boat, in the summer breeze.
The view from Castle Rock: The first time Andrew was ever in Edinburgh he was ten years old.
Lying under the apple tree: Over on the other side of town lived a woman named Miriam McAlpin, who kept horses.
Hired girl: Mrs. Montjoy was showing me how to put the pots and pans away.
Dimensions: Doree had to take three buses - one to Kincardine, where she waited for the one to London, where she waited again for the city bus out to the facility.
Deep-holes: Sally packed devilled eggs - something she hated to take on a picnic, because they were so messy.
Free radicals: At first people were phoning to make sure that Nita was not too depressed, not too lonely, not eating too little or drinking too much.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The love of a good woman: But if she concentrated on the motion of the boat, a slight and secretive motion, she could feel as if everything for a long way around had gone quiet.
My mother's dream: I would have liked for one of them to see my pale pajamas moving in the dark, and to scream out in earnest, thinking that I was a ghost.
Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage: She paused, chewing her pencil, then finished off with a chill of satisfaction, "- what fate has in store for me, or for you-"
Chance: She is a dark-haired, thin woman, witty and sometimes morose, who will become Juliet's great friend and mainstay during the years ahead - though she will never quite forgo a habit of sly teasing, the ironic flicker of a submerged rivalry.
The view from Castle Rock: Dead of some mishap in teh busy streets of York, or of a fever, or dysentery - of any of the ailments, the accidents, that were the common destroyers of little children in his time.
Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the pastfifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with awealth of nuance and insight.Written with emotion and empathy, beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, thesestories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author whodeservedly lays claim to being one of the 'major fiction writers of our time'.
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