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Dear life
Alice Munro
Published
2013
by Wheeler Pub. in Waterville, Me
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Written in English
With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped - the moment a person turns out of an accustomed path and into another way of being. Suffused with her clarity of vision, Munro"s stories paint a vivid and lasting portrait of how extraordinary the ordinary life can be. (Bestseller)
Edition Notes
| Statement | Alice Munro |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PR9199.3.M8 D43 2013 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 437 p. (large print) |
| Number of Pages | 437 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL27145445M |
| ISBN 10 | 1410455947 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781410455949 |
| LC Control Number | 2012043717 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 1001857387, 822229875 |
Dear Life is a painful read at times, because it forces you to reflect on some of the worst situations anybody ever has to face. However, the book is also a compassionate gem, full of its own episodes of sweetness.4/5(10). Dear Life will be published by Little, Brown in the UK in January Pre-order: Waterstones, Amazon. Praise for Dear Life “A truly wonderful book. Dying is rarely easy, nor is writing about it - but Rachel Clarke does so perfectly, with neither sentimentality nor sensationalism, and instead with realism and kindness. Read it.” Henry Marsh.
Dear Life is a landmark book by one of Australia’s most powerful writers. “The elderly, the frail are our society. They are our parents and grandparents, our carers and neighbours, and they are every one of us in the not-too-distant future. Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter – to a father, to a profession, to life itself. My Review of Dear Life. A doctor’s personal view of life and death. What a book.
Dear Life is the inspiring, sometimes heartbreaking and yet deeply uplifting story of the doctor we would all want to have by our side in a crisis. The hospice where Rachel works is, of course, a world haunted by loss and grief, but it is also teeming with life. Just after my mother had grabbed me up, as she said, for dear life. The daughter lived not so far away from me, in my adult life. I could have written to her, maybe visited.
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As it is, DEAR LIFE is only the third book of hers that I have read, and she is so good that I just might, if I last long enough with eyesight and sentience, read another dozen. DEAR LIFE was published inwhen Munro was eighty-one.
As of now, it is her last book of entirely new material, as is likely to remain the case given her by: 2. Dear Life is a collection of fourteen stories; the last four in Finale are autobiographical. The latter which I preferred offered a glimpse of the young Alice Munro growing up in Ontario, pouring over books with her feet in a warming oven, and discovering her /5(K).
• Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss by Rachel Clarke is published by Little, Brown (£). To order a copy go to Free UK p&p over £ Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis.
It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself. Special offers and product promotions. Amazon Business: For business /5(67). Dear Life is a wonderful, wonderful book that any person facing death What a book. I had reservations about reading Dear Life by Rachel Clarke as I thought I might find its subject matter too personal and Dear life book or the author too introspective, patronising or condescending/5.
Dear Life By Meghan Quinn is such a good book. It’s about four strangers Hollyn, Have, Daisy and Carter who Dear life book go through there own trials and tribulations and are brought together by this program called Dear Life.
Hollyn loses her husband in a tragic accident/5(). Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis.
It is a love letter - 5/5(11). Dear Life is a book Dear life book the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.
(12 ratings by Goodreads) By (author) Rachel Clarke. US$ US$ You save US$ Also available in. Paperback US$/5(). Dear Life is as rich and astonishing as anything she has done before.” —The New York Review of Books “There is no writer quite as good at illustrating the foibles of love, the confusions and frustrations of life or the inner cruelty and treachery that can be revealed in the slightest gestures and changes of tone/5(35).
About Dear Life. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an.
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro was born in and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and has 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 /5(47).
Book Summary. Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined and real, paint a radiant, indelible portrait of how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.
Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss is published by Little, Brown (RRP £). To order a copy go to Free UK p&p over £ **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories.
Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.
She won’t be shut up or brushed away because she’s too full of life — or dear life, as the book’s title would have it: precious but also costly and so. A mother snatches up her child and runs for dear life when a crazy woman comes into her yard.
Suffused with Munro’s clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined and real, paint a radiant, indelible portrait of how.
In Dear Life, she shows no sign of running out of material nor any sloppiness toward the form she has so gracefully deployed for almost half a book is more, however, than just the latest evidence of her excellence. Munro offers something striking in Dear Life: a distinct turn to autobiography and a revealing window into the workings of her mind 4/4(18).
Dear Life names the tension between love and risk that gives life its sweetness. It takes readers to the edge of life in supportive, wise company. Heart-wrenchingly tender. She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty. Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness.
A magnificent, tender book. Moving an honest account from the front line. The following version of this story was used to create this study guide: Munro, Alice.
“Dear Life.” Dear Life. New York: Vintage International, Print. This story is narrated in the first-person past tense by an unnamed narrator who shares basic biographical details with the author.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE© IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an /5().
Dear Life Stories (Book): Munro, Alice: This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron, these stories about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and .Dear Life: Stories (Vintage International series) by Alice Munro.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE© IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro.
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro was born in and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and has 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 /5().
