Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories (Vintage International) - Softcover

Munro, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067978151X ISBN 13: 9780679781516

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario, these tales are luminous acts of attention to those vivid moments when revelation emerges from the layers of experience that lie behind even the most everyday events and lives.
"Virtuosity, elemental command, incisive like a diamond, remarkable: all these descriptions fit Alice Munro."-- "Christian Science Monitor"
"How does one know when one is in the grip of art--of a major talent?....It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories."-- "Wall Street Journal"

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Review:

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." --Jonathan 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." --Lorrie 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**

Alice Munro’s first collection of short stories explores the lives of ordinary people in semi-rural Canada with the skill and sensitivity that have since become the hallmarks of her writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 067978151X
• ISBN 13: 9780679781516
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242