Open Secrets: Stories - Hardcover

Munro, Alice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679435751 ISBN 13: 9780679435754

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994

Synopsis

A powerful collection of short stories in which women take the center stage includes the tale of a heart patient who experiences a revelation about an old love and that of a young woman struggling with a long-hidden secret. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries.
Cynthia Ozick
Brilliant at evoking life s diversity and unpredictability, [Alice Munro is] an unrivalled chronicler of human nature.
"The Sunday Times"
An Alice Munro story zooms effortlessly through time zones, spans generations and offers up more detail and description than do many full-length contemporary novels.
"Maclean" "s"
She is the best fiction writer in North America.
"The Vancouver Sun
"
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"

"She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries."
-Cynthia Ozick

"Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability, [Alice Munro is] an unrivalled chronicler of human nature."
-The Sunday Times

"An Alice Munro story zooms effortlessly through time zones, spans generations and offers up more detail and description than do many full-length contemporary novels."
-Maclean's

"She is the best fiction writer in North America."
-The Vancouver Sun

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**

An illuminating collection from one of the most celebrated story writers of our time

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679435751
• ISBN 13: 9780679435754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1