MUNRO, Alice.
Dance of the Happy Shades.
Toronto: Ryerson Press , 1968.
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"The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though my father seems to regard it with tranquillity": First Edition of Alice Munro’s First Book Dance of the Happy Shades; Signed by Her
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by Hugh Garner. Signed by Alice Munro on the title page. Lightly bumped, near fine in a bright near fine dust jacket. A nice example of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book.
Alice Munro’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and its Giller Prize, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. "Masterful ....Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives" (The Washington Post). "She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion" (Jonthan Franzen).
Dance of the Happy Shades.
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