FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JULY 2013
Copyright © 2012 by Alice Munro
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2012.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Most of the stories contained in this work were previously published in the following: “In Sight of the Lake” and “Night” in Granta ; “Pride” and “Train” in Harper’s Magazine ; “To Reach Japan” in Narrative Magazine ; “Amundsen,” “Corrie,” “Dear Life,” “Gravel,” “Haven,” and “Leaving Maverly” in The New Yorker ; and “Dolly” in Tin House .
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Munro, Alice.
Dear life : stories / by Alice Munro.
p. cm.
I. Title.
PR9199.3.M8D43 2012 813’.54—dc23 2012020455
eISBN: 978-0-307-96104-4
Cover design by Megan Wilson
Cover photograph © Lee Avison/Millenium Images, UK
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