Lives Of Girls & Women

Moving ribald and semiautobiographical Lives of Girls and Women is the only novel from Alice Munro winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs grazing knees singing songs to save England from Hitler that was childhood for Del Jordan and now shes impatient for more More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother or in the halfunderstood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances Just like the girls in the movies she wants to get started on real life In her only novel Alice Munro turns her eye to the frustrations embarrassments glee and bewilderment of adolescence and to the brushes with sex death violence and birth that shape the lives of girls and women.