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DEAR LIFE

DEAR LIFE

ALICE MUNRO

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Publisher:
VINTAGE
Year of publication:
2013
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-0-09-957863-5
Pages:
319
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**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.

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