Friend of My Youth

Alice Munro

Feb 2021 · Blackstone Publishing · Vorgelesen von Beth Fowler

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In the powerful, haunting stories of Alice Munro’s collection, men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have given shape to their lives.

Autoren-Profil

Alice Munro (1931–2024) was the author of eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. She won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as many other awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards, two Giller Prizes, the Man Booker International Prize, the Lannan Literary Award, W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and more. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and other publications. She grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.

Beth Fowler ’s Broadway performances include Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, Baby, Teddy and Alice, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Take Me Along, Peter Pan, and A Little Music. Beth can be seen on television in Law & Order, Loving, and Another World, and in both Sister Act films.