Alice Munro Lives of Girls and Women review, recensie en informatie roman in verhalen uit 1971 van de Canadese schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over het boek uit 1971 van Alice Munro, de uit Canada afkomstige schrijfster en winnares van de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur in 2009. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Alice Munro Lives of Girls and Women review en recensie
- “Superb. Its dense weave of colour and texture offers manifold witty surprises and the poetry of place that is the hallmark of Munro’s stories.” (Steve Davies, Independent)
- “She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion.” (Jonathan Franzen)
- “In Munro’s work, nothing can be predicted. Emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate.” (Margaret Atwood)
- “Her prose is exact and unflinching, coolly anatomising vengeful grudges, dark crimes and curdled emotions.” (Guardian)
Lives of Girls and Women
- Auteur: Alice Munro (Canada)
- Soort boek: roman in verhalen uit 1971
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste uitgever: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
- Omvang: 254 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van Alice Munro uit 1971
Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler – that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she’s impatient for more.
More than she can find in the encyclopaedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances.
Just like the girls in the movies, she wants to get started on real life.
In her only novel, Alice Munro turns her eye to the frustrations, embarrassments, glee and bewilderment of adolescence, and to the brushes with sex, death, violence and birth that shape the lives of girls and women.
Alice Munro was born on 10 July 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, 
Canada. She wrote thirteen short story collections and one novel in stories. For the story collection Too Much Happiness she received the Book Prize. She won numerous other literairy prizes including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. She died at the age of 92 on 13 May 2024 in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.