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Friend of My Youth Audiobook
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In the powerful, haunting stories of Munro’s new 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.
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“Munro is an established author, one of the few who have mastered the art of short story writing…The primary characters, mainly women, have diverse relationships with their families and other unusual acquaintances. The plots are sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always within the realm of realism…readers will find these stories entertaining and often thought-provoking. Recommended.”
— Library Journal
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“[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt.”
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“It is difficult to do justice to Munro’s magical way with characterization or to her unerring control of her own resources; she writes…with a trenchant knowledge of life and fiction as conspiring forces of creation.”
— Publishers Weekly, praise for the author
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Winner of the 1990 Trillium Book Award
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Winner of the 1991 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book: Canada and the Caribbean
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A 1990 New York Times Editor’s Choice
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About Alice Munro
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.
About Beth Fowler
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.