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Dec 21, 2011 | ISBN 9780307814623 Buy
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Dec 21, 2011 | ISBN 9780307814623
WINNER OF THE 2013 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURESpanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. To read these stories–about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey; an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude–is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.
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… More about Alice Munro
Praise from fellow writers:“Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does.” —Jhumpa Lahiri“She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion.” —Jonthan Franzen“The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.” —Elizabeth Strout“She’s the most savage writer I’ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive.” —Jeffery Eugenides“Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.”—Julian Barnes“She is a short-story writer who…reimagined what a story can do.” —Loorie Moore“There’s probably no one alive who’s better at the craft of the short story.” —Jim Shepard“A true master of the form.” —Salman Rushdie“A wonderful writer.” —Joyce Carol Oates
Man Booker International Prize WINNER 2009
Nobel Prize WINNER 2013
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