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Munro, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140128395 ISBN 13: 9780140128390

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

This work contains 13 stories in which Alice Munro explores the mysteries, dangers, joy and bewilderment in the lives of ordinary girls and women.

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Review:

"Munro, the hugely gifted chronicler, is fast becoming one of the world's great totemic writers. . . . Each short story is a mansion of many rooms." -The New York Times Book Review
"How honest and how lovely. . . . A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace and surprise. . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception." -Los Angeles Times
"Wonderful. . . . A sheer pleasure." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"A rich exploration of womanhood. . . . A more supple, honest, sensitive and sympathetic imagination would be hard to find among writers of fiction today." -Ms.
"Masterful . . . proves beyond question Alice Munro's trenchant ability to capture the essence of personality in the vagaries of human impulses. . . . It is hard to imagine a perception more acute." -Houston Post

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

Book Description:

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

A remarkable early collection of stories by Alice Munro, the bestselling author of Dear Life, and one of the greatest fiction writers of our time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140128395
• ISBN 13: 9780140128390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256