Who Do You Think You Are?

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**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK**Previously published as ‘The Beggar Maid’, Alice Munro’s wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose’s life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world.Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious – she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid, ‘meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet’, and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her.’A work of great brilliance and depth… almost Proustian in its sureness’ New StatesmanWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

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Weight 0.192 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

272

Publisher

Year Published

2021-7-1

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1529115450

About The Author

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She 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 Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.

The stories are absolutely wonderful…every word she writes is interesting

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She has a touch of genius

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