Alice Munro: writing her lives ; a biography
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Toronto
Emblem
2011
|
| Edition: | Updated ed. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Klappentext |
| Item Description: | "Emblem edition with new chapter published 2011" -- verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 577-630) and index |
| Physical Description: | 649, [32] S. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780771085109 |
Staff View
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000zc 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV040348453 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20131211 | ||
| 007 | t | ||
| 008 | 120803s2011 xxca||| |||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 010 | |a 2010942268 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780771085109 |c pbk. |9 978-0-7710-8510-9 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)812208926 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV040348453 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e aacr | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 044 | |a xxc |c CA | ||
| 049 | |a DE-12 |a DE-473 |a DE-739 | ||
| 050 | 0 | |a PR9199.3.M8 | |
| 082 | 0 | |a C813/.54 | |
| 084 | |a HQ 5427 |0 (DE-625)52690:11637 |2 rvk | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Thacker, Robert |e Verfasser |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Alice Munro |b writing her lives ; a biography |c Robert Thacker |
| 250 | |a Updated ed. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Toronto |b Emblem |c 2011 | |
| 300 | |a 649, [32] S. |b Ill. |c 23 cm | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a "Emblem edition with new chapter published 2011" -- verso. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 577-630) and index | ||
| 600 | 1 | 4 | |a Munro, Alice |d 1931- |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | |a Munro, Alice |d 1931- |x Criticism and interpretation |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Munro, Alice |d 1931-2024 |0 (DE-588)119036525 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 655 | 7 | |0 (DE-588)4006804-3 |a Biografie |2 gnd-content | |
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |a Munro, Alice |d 1931-2024 |0 (DE-588)119036525 |D p |
| 689 | 0 | |5 DE-604 | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025202556&sequence=000005&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025202556&sequence=000006&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Klappentext |
Record in the Search Index
| _version_ | 1805070243089874944 |
|---|---|
| adam_text |
Contents
PROLOGUE:
Alice Munro, August
19/4 2
PART
ONE; Everything Here Is Touchable
1
.
Ancestors, Parents, Home 1
4
2.
"Particularly Clear and Important to Me":
48
Lower Town andWingham,
193
і
-1
949
PARTTWO: Becoming Alice Munro
3.
"My Name Now Is Alice Munro, and I Am Living in
90
Vancouver": Friendship, Loveship, Courtship,
Marriage, Family, 1
949-
1
960
4.
"I Was Trying to Find a Meaning": Victoria, Munrofs 1
56
Bookstore, Dance of the Happy Shades, and Lives of
Girls and Women,
1960-1972
5.
Waiting Her Chance, Going "Home":
224
Who Do You ThinkYou Are?,
1972-1975
6.
"Other Stories Are Wonderful and Also Read Like
292
the Truth": Virginia Barber, the New Yorker,
Macmiilan, and Knopf,
1975-1980
PARTTHREE: Being Alice Munro
7.
Feeling Like Rilke's Editor: Making The Moons of Jupiter,
366
The Progress of Love, Friend of My Youth,
1980-1990
8.
"She's Our Chekhov": Open Secrets, Selected Stories,
442
The Love of a Good Woman,
/ 990-1998
9.
"But She's Not in a Class with Most Other People":
492
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage,
the New Yorker's MunroTriptych, Runaway
10.
"SoThis Is How It Should Be Done":TheView from
526
Castle Rock, the Man Booker International Prize, and
Too Much Happiness
EPILOGUE: Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, Writing
Horne,
566
Writing On
,.,
Acknowledgements
57
1
A Note on the Sources
577
References
577
Archival and Unpublished Sources
606
Select Bibliography
607
Index
63
1
ny
о
ne
who has reacl an Alice
JVÍianro
story
uncłerstąncłs
why she is
corisicîerecV
one of the world's great writers. She
has been compared to
Chékhóy
and
Flaubert, although she needs no comparison.
Jonathan
Franzén
called her "the best fie
t
ίο η
writer now working in North America/' and
her mastery of the short story form led one
reviewer to comment that "when reading her
work it is difficult to remember why the novel
was ever invented" (The
ЈЈП??геѕ>>.
ISXov^,
thanks
ţo
over thirty years of research
into Alice
IVf/Ľinró's
life and w^ork, and
unprecedented co-operation from
JVřunro
herself, Robert Thacker takes us along the
parallel tracks of her life and. her stories
tro
bring us a thorough, revealing, and enriching
account of both. The book moves through
time, beginning with Alice Munro
s
pioneer
ancestors and describing in fascinating detail
Munroş
early days growing
üp
poor in
Wingham in Huron County, Ontario. From
there, we carefully follo^w all of her life stages:
the threadbare days at lAniv^rsizy,, her marriage
to Jim Munro, their move
tö
Vancouver, then
tzo Victoria to start the bookstore, their three
daughrex's, the divorce, JVExinro's return to
Huron County, and her new life v^ith Cherry
Frena li
n.
^čC^e
also follo^v the slow but steady
upward trajectory of her triumphant ^writing
career as, story by
story,
book by book, prize by
prize, she gains fame around the --world",, until
rumours of a ISTobel -Prize begin to circulate
. . . |
| any_adam_object | 1 |
| author | Thacker, Robert |
| author_facet | Thacker, Robert |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Thacker, Robert |
| author_variant | r t rt |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV040348453 |
| callnumber-first | P - Language and Literature |
| callnumber-label | PR9199 |
| callnumber-raw | PR9199.3.M8 |
| callnumber-search | PR9199.3.M8 |
| callnumber-sort | PR 49199.3 M8 |
| callnumber-subject | PR - English Literature |
| classification_rvk | HQ 5427 |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)812208926 (DE-599)BVBBV040348453 |
| dewey-raw | C813/.54 |
| dewey-search | C813/.54 |
| discipline | Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| edition | Updated ed. |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>00000nam a2200000zc 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV040348453</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20131211</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">120803s2011 xxca||| |||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="010" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">2010942268</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780771085109</subfield><subfield code="c">pbk.</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-7710-8510-9</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)812208926</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV040348453</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">aacr</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">xxc</subfield><subfield code="c">CA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-473</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-739</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">PR9199.3.M8</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">C813/.54</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">HQ 5427</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-625)52690:11637</subfield><subfield code="2">rvk</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Thacker, Robert</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Alice Munro</subfield><subfield code="b">writing her lives ; a biography</subfield><subfield code="c">Robert Thacker</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Updated ed.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Toronto</subfield><subfield code="b">Emblem</subfield><subfield code="c">2011</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">649, [32] S.</subfield><subfield code="b">Ill.</subfield><subfield code="c">23 cm</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">"Emblem edition with new chapter published 2011" -- verso.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Includes bibliographical references (p. 577-630) and index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="600" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Munro, Alice</subfield><subfield code="d">1931-</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="600" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Munro, Alice</subfield><subfield code="d">1931-</subfield><subfield code="x">Criticism and interpretation</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="600" ind1="1" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Munro, Alice</subfield><subfield code="d">1931-2024</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)119036525</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="655" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4006804-3</subfield><subfield code="a">Biografie</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd-content</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Munro, Alice</subfield><subfield code="d">1931-2024</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)119036525</subfield><subfield code="D">p</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025202556&sequence=000005&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025202556&sequence=000006&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Klappentext</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| genre | (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content |
| genre_facet | Biografie |
| id | DE-604.BV040348453 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-07-20T04:18:49Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9780771085109 |
| language | English |
| lccn | 2010942268 |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-025202556 |
| oclc_num | 812208926 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-12 DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-739 |
| owner_facet | DE-12 DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-739 |
| physical | 649, [32] S. Ill. 23 cm |
| publishDate | 2011 |
| publishDateSearch | 2011 |
| publishDateSort | 2011 |
| publisher | Emblem |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Thacker, Robert Verfasser aut Alice Munro writing her lives ; a biography Robert Thacker Updated ed. Toronto Emblem 2011 649, [32] S. Ill. 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Emblem edition with new chapter published 2011" -- verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 577-630) and index Munro, Alice 1931- Munro, Alice 1931- Criticism and interpretation Munro, Alice 1931-2024 (DE-588)119036525 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Munro, Alice 1931-2024 (DE-588)119036525 p DE-604 Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025202556&sequence=000005&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025202556&sequence=000006&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
| spellingShingle | Thacker, Robert Alice Munro writing her lives ; a biography Munro, Alice 1931- Munro, Alice 1931- Criticism and interpretation Munro, Alice 1931-2024 (DE-588)119036525 gnd |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)119036525 (DE-588)4006804-3 |
| title | Alice Munro writing her lives ; a biography |
| title_auth | Alice Munro writing her lives ; a biography |
| title_exact_search | Alice Munro writing her lives ; a biography |
| title_full | Alice Munro writing her lives ; a biography Robert Thacker |
| title_fullStr | Alice Munro writing her lives ; a biography Robert Thacker |
| title_full_unstemmed | Alice Munro writing her lives ; a biography Robert Thacker |
| title_short | Alice Munro |
| title_sort | alice munro writing her lives a biography |
| title_sub | writing her lives ; a biography |
| topic | Munro, Alice 1931- Munro, Alice 1931- Criticism and interpretation Munro, Alice 1931-2024 (DE-588)119036525 gnd |
| topic_facet | Munro, Alice 1931- Munro, Alice 1931- Criticism and interpretation Munro, Alice 1931-2024 Biografie |
| url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025202556&sequence=000005&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025202556&sequence=000006&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT thackerrobert alicemunrowritingherlivesabiography |