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The Beggar Maid

Stories of Flo and Rose

Part of Vintage International

Author Alice Munro
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale May 07, 1991 | 224 Pages | 978-0-679-73271-6
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Finalist for the Man Booker Prize 

In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people’s airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo’s stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.

“Whether Alice Munro’s The Beggar Maid is a collection of stories or a new kind of novel I'm not quite sure, but whatever it is, it’s wonderful.” —John Gardner

Contents

Royal Beatings

Privilege

Half a Grapefruit

Wild Swans

The Beggar Maid

Mischief

Providence

Simon’s Luck

Spelling

Who Do You Think You Are?
  • FINALIST | 1980
    Booker Prize
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of 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, England’s W. H. Smith Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” was filmed by Sarah Polley as Away from Her, and “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” as Hateship Loveship. She lives in Millbrook, Ontario. View titles by Alice Munro

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Finalist for the Man Booker Prize 

In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people’s airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo’s stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.

“Whether Alice Munro’s The Beggar Maid is a collection of stories or a new kind of novel I'm not quite sure, but whatever it is, it’s wonderful.” —John Gardner

Contents

Royal Beatings

Privilege

Half a Grapefruit

Wild Swans

The Beggar Maid

Mischief

Providence

Simon’s Luck

Spelling

Who Do You Think You Are?

Awards

  • FINALIST | 1980
    Booker Prize

Author

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of 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, England’s W. H. Smith Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” was filmed by Sarah Polley as Away from Her, and “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” as Hateship Loveship. She lives in Millbrook, Ontario. View titles by Alice Munro

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