The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013

In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. the other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.

Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/07/1991
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.35h x 4.89w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780679732716
ISBN10: 0679732713
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Coming of Age

About the Author

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.