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Selected Storiesby Alice Munro
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Spanning 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.
Review:"As well as a spirited, acutely perceptive taleteller, Ms. Munro is an implacable destiny spinner, whose authorial voice breaks into her fiction like that of a God who can no longer bear to keep quiet." John Updike, The New York Times Book Review
Review:"With this gathering of the best of nearly three decades of work, Munro's place in the constellation of short story masters? is affirmed and celebrated....In story after story, each so different in content and mood from the next, Munro achieves a consistent and remarkable ease of syntax, delicacy of psychology, and resonance of visual imagery. There is much to savor and treasure here." Donna Seaman, Booklist
Review:"This thoughtful selection will satisfy the choosiest readers... an important book for serious readers everywhere." Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
About the AuthorAlice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven new collections of stories-Dance of the Happy Shades; Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You; The Beggar Maid; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; and a volume of Selected Stories-as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Man Booker International Prize, 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 United States' National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.Alice Munro divides her time between Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron, and Comox, British Columbia.
Table of ContentsWalker Brothers Cowboy 3
Dance of the Happy Shades 16 Postcard 26 Images 40 Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You 50 The Ottawa Valley 67 Material 81 Royal Beatings 96 Wild Swans 115 The Beggar Maid 124 Simon's Luck 152 Chaddeleys and Flemings 171 Dulse 199 The Turkey Season 218 Labor Day Dinner 231 The Moons of Jupiter 252 The Progress of Love 266 Lichen 289 Miles City, Montana 308 White Dump 325 Fits 353 Friend of My Youth 374 Meneseteung 392 Differently 410 Carried Away 431 The Albanian Virgin 465 A Wilderness Station 498 Vandals 523 Bibliographical Note 547 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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