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Open Secrets: Open Secrets, Alice Munro`s eighth book, consists of eight matchless stories, each one as rich as a full novel. All of them provide compulsive reading - and rewarding re-reading. `Perhaps you will be surprised to hear from a person you don`t know and that doesn`t remember your name.&#8221 These intriguing words begin a letter dated 1917 to the Librarian in Carstairs, Ontario (the heart of `Alice Munro Country&#8221 ). The letter sweeps us away into a world of secrets and revelations where nothing - not even a courtship by letter that leads, over time, to a solid marriage - is as it originally seems. The Ontario stories range from `A Wilderness Station,&#8221 which gives an account of an 1852 tree-felling accident and sheds light on the harsh life of the pioneers, all the way to the present, where family names known to us appear again in a world of TV shows and snowmobiles. Just as the stories range back and forth in time, they also travel far to distant settings. Much of `The Albanian Virgin&#8221 is set in a remote mountain area where a Canadian tourist in the 1920s is captured by bandits her tale of escape is comforting to a Victoria bookseller escaping from her own former life. `The Jack Randa Hotel&#8221 brings a deserted wife in cold pursuit to Australia, which leads to another intriguing letter. `Dear Mrs. Thornaby, It has come to my attention that you are dead...&#8221 Things that cannot be explained happen here. In the title story a lawyer`s wife has a flash of insight - illogical, unprovable and terrifying - into the fate of a missing teenager in another, the appearance of a long-dead visitor reveals the grip of a former love. Yet the true magic lies in the way that Alice Munro makes everything here - unexpected marriages, elopements, acts of sudden vengeance - unfold with the ease of the inevitable. This is the mark of a great writer, and it is stamped on every page of this book. Englisch, Ebook.

Lieferung aus: Kanada, in-stock.
Open Secrets, Alice Munro's eighth book, consists of eight matchless stories, each one as rich as a full novel. All of them provide compulsive reading - and rewarding re-reading. "*Perhaps you will be surprised to hear from a person you don't know and that doesn't remember your name." These intriguing words begin a letter dated 1917 to the Librarian in Carstairs, Ontario (the heart of "Alice Munro Country"). The letter sweeps us away into a world of secrets and revelations where nothing - not even a courtship by letter that leads, over time, to a solid marriage - is as it originally seems. The Ontario stories range from "A Wilderness Station," which gives an account of an 1852 tree-felling accident and sheds light on the harsh life of the pioneers, all the way to the present, where family names known to us appear again in a world of TV shows and snowmobiles. Just as the stories range back and forth in time, they also travel far to distant settings. Much of "The Albanian Virgin" is set in a remote mountain area where a Canadian tourist in the 1920s is captured by bandits; her tale of escape is comforting to a Victoria bookseller escaping from her own former life. "The Jack Randa Hotel" brings a deserted wife in cold pursuit to Australia, which leads to another intriguing letter. "Dear Mrs. Thornaby, It has come to my attention that you are dead…" Things that cannot be explained happen here. In the title story a lawyer's wife has a flash of insight - illogical, unprovable and terrifying - into the fate of a missing teenager; in another, the appearance of a long-dead visitor reveals the grip of a former love. Yet the true magic lies in the way that Alice Munro makes everything here - unexpected marriages, elopements, acts of sudden vengeance - unfold with the ease of the inevitable. This is the mark of a great writer, and it is stamped on every page of this book.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: EUR.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, worldofbooks, WEST SUS***, Goring-By-Sea, [RE:4].
The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Glenwood Coffee & Books.
With an Introduction by Jane Urquhart The is a remarkable magic in these eight matchless stories—stories set in Ontario, Australia, Europe; in dangerous mountains, forbidding wilderness, familiar towns. Things that cannot be explained happen here—and yet all seems inevitable, deeply credible and always profoundly true to the human heart. , Paperback, Ausgabe: First Trade Paperback, Label: Penguin Putnam~trade, Penguin Putnam~trade, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1994-01-01, Studio: Penguin Putnam~trade, Verkaufsrang: 3728119.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Atlanta Book Company.
With an Introduction by Jane Urquhart The is a remarkable magic in these eight matchless stories—stories set in Ontario, Australia, Europe; in dangerous mountains, forbidding wilderness, familiar towns. Things that cannot be explained happen here—and yet all seems inevitable, deeply credible and always profoundly true to the human heart. , Paperback, Ausgabe: First Trade Paperback, Label: Penguin Putnam~trade, Penguin Putnam~trade, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1994-01-01, Studio: Penguin Putnam~trade, Verkaufsrang: 3728119.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, worldreaders.
With an Introduction by Jane Urquhart The is a remarkable magic in these eight matchless stories—stories set in Ontario, Australia, Europe; in dangerous mountains, forbidding wilderness, familiar towns. Things that cannot be explained happen here—and yet all seems inevitable, deeply credible and always profoundly true to the human heart. , Paperback, Ausgabe: First Trade Paperback, Label: Penguin Putnam~trade, Penguin Putnam~trade, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1994-01-01, Studio: Penguin Putnam~trade, Verkaufsrang: 3728119.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, worldreaders.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, booklync.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Free State Books.
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Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Sierra Nevada Books, NV, Reno, [RE:5].
Hardcover.