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      Friend of My Youth

      by Alice Munro
      Published
      Dec 1991
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      288
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      A "wickedly funny" (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, "one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

      "Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity."—Chicago Tribune
       
      A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger.
       
      The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.

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      First Edition Dec 1991 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099820604 ISBN10 0099820609
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      May 1991 Vintage ISBN13 9780679729570 ISBN10 0679729577
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      Sep 2007 Penguin (Canada) ISBN13 9780143055013 ISBN10 0143055011
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      Mar 1990 Knopf ISBN13 9780394584423 ISBN10 0394584422
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      Apr 2012 Random House ISBN13 9780307814593 ISBN10 0307814599
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      Apr 2012 Vintage ISBN10 B007QPEDGY
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      Apr 2012 McClelland & Stewart (Canada) ISBN13 9781551993942 ISBN10 1551993945
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      Apr 2012 Vintage ISBN13 9781448162888 ISBN10 1448162882
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      Mar 1990 Random House Audio ISBN13 9780394584867 ISBN10 0394584864
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      Nov 2003 Sound Library ISBN13 9780792730866 ISBN10 0792730860
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      May 1997 Fitzhenry and Whiteside ISBN13 9781550413168 ISBN10 1550413163
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