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Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, and about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives. A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction (which involves reading Housman in the nude) finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Other stories uncover the 'deep holes' in marriage and their consequences, the dangerous intimacy of girls and the cruelty of children. The long title story follows Sophia Kovalevsky, a late nineteenth-century Russian emigree and mathematical genius, as she takes a fateful winter journey that begins with a visit to her lover on the Riviera, and ends in Sweden, where she is a professor at the only university willing to hire a woman to teach her subject. Munro's unsettling stories turn lives into art, expand our world and our understanding of the strange workings of the human heart.

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"These are stories that mirror reality...so convincingly that you can almost forget the skill with which they are created." --Daily Mail

`wonderful new collection'.
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"This is a remarkable collection...and makes a lasting impression" --Books Quarterly

"sharp, poignant, emotionally unresolved - is a reminder of why she is considered the unrivalled queen of the short form"
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`as dark and funny as she was when she started writing short stories nearly 60 years ago.' --The Economist

"another treasure-trove from perhaps the greatest living short story writer" --The Scotsman

` buy her latest book...and see what all the fuss is about' --Daily Mail
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A brilliant, compelling new collection from one of the world's greatest living short-story writers, and winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.

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  • PublisherVintage
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 0307742253
  • ISBN 13 9780307742254
  • BindingMass Market Paperback
  • Number of pages320
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