The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

alice munro

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.

Genres short storiesfictioncanadanobel prizecanadian literaturebook clubliterary fictioncontemporaryliteratureclassics

210 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1978

Literary awards

booker prize, governor generals literary awards / prix littéraires du gouverneur général,

This edition

Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Published: May 7, 1991 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780679732716
ASIN: 0679732713
Language: English

About the author

alice munro

Collections of short stories of noted Canadian writer Alice Munro of life in rural Ontario include Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and Moons of Jupiter (1982); for these and vivid novels, she won the Nobel Prize of 2013 for literature.

People widely consider her premier fiction of the world. Munro thrice received governor general's award. She focuses on human relationships through the lens of daily life. People thus refer to this "the Canadian Chekhov."

(Arabic: أليس مونرو)
(Persian: آلیس مانرو)
(Russian Cyrillic: Элис Манро)
(Ukrainian Cyrillic: Еліс Манро)
(Bulgarian Cyrillic: Алис Мънро)
(Slovak: Alice Munroová)
(Serbian: Alis Manro)