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Literary Criticism Women Authors

Alice Munro

A Double Life

by (author) Catherine Sheldrick Ross

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Aug 1992
Category
Women Authors, Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550221534
    Publish Date
    Aug 1992
    List Price
    $14.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770906679
    Publish Date
    Aug 1992
    List Price
    $9.99

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Canadian-born Alice Munro has established herself as one of the world's finest contemporary short story-writers. Since the publication of her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades in 1968, she has tantalized a steadily expanding readership with her ability to present, “ordinary life so that it appears luminous, invested with a kind of magic.” In Alice Munro: A Double Life, the first full-length biography of Munro, Ross charts the development of Munro as a wife/mother and serious writer, and her struggle to balance the demands of this “double life.”

 

About the author

Contributor Notes

Catherine Sheldrick Ross teaches at the University of Western Ontario. Her other publications include Recovering Canada’s First Novelist, two non-fiction books for children, and Communicating Professionally.