Book description
Alfrida, for so long an admired, urbane exponent of big-city living
to her young rurally isolated niece, has lost some of her gloss by the
time she accepts a university place in the same city as her aunt.
Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally
published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship,
Loveship, Marriage.
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of twelve collections
of stories, most recently
Too Much Happiness
, and a novel,
Lives of Girls and Women
. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's
Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award
for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award
in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was
shortlisted for the Booker Prize for
The Beggar Maid
, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her
overall contribution to fiction on the world stage. Her stories have
appeared in the
New Yorker
,
Atlantic Monthly
,
Paris Review
and other publications, and her collections have been translated into
thirteen languages. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near
Lake Huron in Canada.
