Dance of the Happy Shades - Alice Munro

Alice Munro’s territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these powerful tales she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the nature of their fears, sorrows and aspirations. Dance of the Happy Shades was Alice Munro’s first book and won the 1968 Governor-General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary prize.

Alice Munro (1931-2024) was a Canadian writer renowned for her subtle and precise depiction of everyday lives. She won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and many other honours including multiple Governor General’s Awards and the Man Booker International Prize.

ISBN: 0-14-012408-X