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The Moons of Jupiter
ALICE MUNRO grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published many books, including Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives of Girls and Women; Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; and Runaway; as well as Selected Stories , an anthology of stories culled from her dazzling body of work.
During her distinguished career, Munro has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the W.H. Smith Award in the United Kingdom and, in the United States, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Rea Award for the Short Story.
In Canada, her prize-winning record is so extraordinary— three Governor General’s Awards, two Giller Prizes, the Trillium Book Award, the Jubilee Prize, and the Libris Award, among many others—that it has been ironically suggested that as such a perennial winner, she no longer qualifies for new prizes. Abroad, acclaim continues to pour in. Runaway and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada region, and were chosen as one of the Books of the Year by The New York Times .
Alice Munro’s stories appear regularly in The New Yorker , as well as in The Atlantic Monthly , Saturday Night, and The Paris Review . She and her husband divide their time between Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.
LORRIE MOORE is the author of the story collections Birds of America, Like Life, and Self-Help , and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams . Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards .
Also by Alice Munro
Dance of the Happy Shades
Lives of Girls and Women
Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Progress of Love
Friend of My Youth
Open Secrets
Selected Stories
The Love of a Good Woman
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Runaway
ALICE MUNRO
The Moons of Jupiter
STORIES
With an Introduction by Lorrie Moore
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First published by Macmillan of Canada, a division of Gage Publishing Ltd., 1982
Published in Penguin Canada paperback by Penguin Group (Canada), a division of Pearson Canada Inc., 1983, 1995
Published in this edition, 2006
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Introduction copyright © Lorrie Moore, 2006
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