Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career,these are some of the best,most touching and powerful short stories ever writtenThis first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the faade of everyday lives,the pain and promises,loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories,from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories,1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784876883Number of pages: 432Weight: 299 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 26 mm
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Munro is a great realist,and her powers come from her sense of the way in which communities - especially small,socially anxious,limited ones - construct and guard their reality.Munro is a great realist,and her powers come from her sense of the way in which communities - especially small,socially anxious,limited ones - construct and guard their reality.One of the most esteemed writers in the world....Few writers capture the moral ambiguities,murkiness,messiness - and joy - of relationships with as much empathy and grace as MunroHer work is practically perfect. Any writer has to gawk when reading her because her work is very subtle and preciseThe best short story writer alive... Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety,more grace,more tender twists of the human heart - than many novelists do in a lifetime's oeuvre
Alice Munro
Canadian author and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
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