ISBN: 9780099458357    Publisher: Random House Year of publishing: 2005     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 224        Language: English

Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside.But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her-Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world.
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Winner of the Man Booker International Prize for 2009, Alice Munro is the author of twelve collections of stories, most recently 'Too Much Happiness', and a novel, 'Lives of Girls and Women'. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the W.H. Smith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'The Beggar Maid'. Her stories have appeared in 'The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review', and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron in Canada.
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