num_pages: 224
description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE ®  IN LITERATURE 2013In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario, these tales are luminous acts of attention to those vivid moments when revelation emerges from the layers of experience that lie behind even the most everyday events and lives."Virtuosity, elemental command, incisive like a diamond, all these descriptions fit Alice Munro."-- Christian Science Monitor"How does one know when one is in the grip of art--of a major talent?....It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories."-- Wall Street Journal
language: English
title: Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
titlecomplete: Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Canada, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3953
places: Canada
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage