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Paperback. When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chrissy worships her. But when Queenie runs away at eighteen, their lives quietly diverge. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 106 x 5. Weight in Grams: 44.
'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chrissy worships her. But when Queenie runs away at eighteen, their lives quietly diverge. Joyce Carol Oates has described Alice Munro's work as 'tales of domestic tragicomedy that seemed to open up, as if by magic, into wider, deeper, vaster ... Read more
'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chrissy worships her. But when Queenie runs away at eighteen, their lives quietly diverge. Joyce Carol Oates has described Alice Munro's work as 'tales of domestic tragicomedy that seemed to open up, as if by magic, into wider, deeper, vaster ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781253175
SKU
V9781781253175
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-5
About Anne Enright
Alice Munro is the author of thirteen short story collections and one novel. She has won numerous prizes and awards, including the International Man Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor General's Award. She was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Munro changed our sense of what the short story can do ... Read more
Reviews for Queenie
The greatest living short story writer
A. S. Byatt A true master of the form
Salman Rushdie Among the major writers of English fiction of our time
Margaret Atwood She has taken an art form, the short story ... and she has cultivated it almost to perfection
Peter Englund, Nobel Committee for Literature Some of the ... Read more
A. S. Byatt A true master of the form
Salman Rushdie Among the major writers of English fiction of our time
Margaret Atwood She has taken an art form, the short story ... and she has cultivated it almost to perfection
Peter Englund, Nobel Committee for Literature Some of the ... Read more