Away from Her -- Alice Munro

<p><b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013</b> <p/>Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" - the basis for Sarah Polley's film <i>Away From Her</i> -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Alice Munro<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 04/17/2007<br><b>Pages:</b> 96<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.20lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.20h x 4.92w x 0.26d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780307386694<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p>Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, <i>Lives of Girls and Women, </i>and two volumes of <i>Selected Stories.</i> During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including 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 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in <i>The New York