Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: A Biography
by Robert Thacker
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Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:This is the book about one of the world's great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine.For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro's life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munro's admirers everywhere.
By following "the parallel tracks" of Alice Munro's life and Alice Munro's texts, show more he gives a thorough and revealing account of both her life and work. "There is always a starting point in reality," she once said of her stories, and this book reveals just how often her stories spring from her life.
The book is chronological, starting with her pioneer ancestors, but with special attention paid to her parents and to her early days growing up poor in Wingham. Then all of her life stages — the marriage to Jim Munro, the move to Vancouver, then to Victoria to start the bookstore, the three daughters, the divorce, the return to Huron County, and the new life with Gerry Fremlin — leading to the triumphs as, story by story, book by book, she gains fame around the world, until rumours of a Nobel Prize circulate . . . show less
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A very detailed biography of Alice Munro undertaken primarily through research and a few interviews with Munro. This account includes her family geneaology, the details of where she was living and the places each of her works were based on, how each were published and by whom and where and many, many reviews and comments on her works. Recommended for all Alice Munro fans.
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Robert Thacker is Charles A. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence University, New York, USA. His previous publications include Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives A Biography (2005, revised 2011) and Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 (2016).
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PR9199.3 .M8 .Z925 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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