num_pages: 224
description: In the stories that make up Dance of the Happy Shades, the deceptive calm of small-town life is brought memorably to the page, revealing the countryside of Southwestern Ontario to be home to as many small sufferings and unanticipated emotions as any place. This is the book that earned Alice Munro a devoted readership and established her as one of Canada's most beloved writers.Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, Dance of the Happy Shades is Alice Munro's first short story collection.
language: English
title: Dance Of The Happy Shades: Stories
titlecomplete: Dance Of The Happy Shades: Stories
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Canada, Contemporary
ratings_count: 3952
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: Ryerson