Selected Stories - Softcover

Munro, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099732416 ISBN 13: 9780099732419

Publisher: Vintage, 1997

Synopsis

This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the façade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

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Review:

"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." (James Wood London Review of Books)

"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 Munro... An outstanding showcase for Munro's scrupulous, humane, unnervingly perceptive vision" (Guardian)

"Her work is practically perfect. Any writer has to gawk when reading her because her work is very subtle and precise" (Jane Smiley)

"The 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" (Independent)

"One of the world's best living short-story writers... To say that she has made the short story her own and reinvigorated it somehow falls short - she has reinvented it" (Observer)

From the Publisher:

A brilliant collection from a brilliant writer
'The greatest living short story writer' A S Byatt, Books of the Year, Sunday Times

‘The finest writer of short stories working in the English language today’ The Times

This first-ever selection of Alice Munro’s stories sums up her genius, her versatility and her inimitable humanity. Her territory is the secrets that crackle beneath the façade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women, whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable. This beautiful volume is a treasury for Alice Munro’s many admirers and an irresistible introduction for new readers.

‘That Munro is a great writer of short stories should go without saying. She is also one of the two or three best writers of fiction (of any length) now alive’ Sunday Times

‘This superb collection...confirms Munro’s place as the laureate of thwarted passion – and quite possible the greatest short story writer at work today’ Daily Telegraph

‘An outstanding showcase for Munro’s scrupulous, humane, unnervingly perceptive vision’ Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0099732416
• ISBN 13: 9780099732419
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416