FAMILY FURNISHINGS, SELECTED STORIES 1995-2014.includes LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN; JAKARTA; CHILDREN'S STORY; POST & BEAM; RUNAWAY; SOON; PASSION.; HOME; HIRED GIRL; DIMENSIONS. .others.
MUNRO, ALICE.;.SMILEY, JANE FOREWORD.
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf Publishers 2014 TP&verso, NY, 2014
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VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S30.00) DUST JACKET, clean, solid, bright.; SILVER SPINE TITLES ON GREY HARD COVERS. WHITE TITLES ON GREY DJ showing FANCY SILVER SPOON.NICE, UNCLIPT (S30.00) DUST JACKET. .STATED "FIRST EDITION".; 620pg pages; Eloquent, gifted writer. 24 MOST ACCOMPLISHED, POWERFULLY AFFECTING Short Stories .tales set in SOUTH western Canada, from the small-town and farm life of the Lake Huron region to the cultivated suburbs of Vancouver.companion volume to SELECTED STORIES.
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- Title
- FAMILY FURNISHINGS, SELECTED STORIES 1995-2014.includes LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN; JAKARTA; CHILDREN'S STORY; POST & BEAM; RUNAWAY; SOON; PASSION.; HOME; HIRED GIRL; DIMENSIONS. .others.
- Author
- MUNRO, ALICE.;.SMILEY, JANE FOREWORD.
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Publishers 2014 TP&verso, NY
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- HARDCOVER
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1101874104
- ISBN 13
- 9781101874103
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Author Photo Back Cover Dj
- Edition
- first edition".
- Dimensions
- 6x9"
Family Furnishings brings us twenty-four of Alice Munros most accomplished, most powerfully affecting stories, many of them set in the territory she has so brilliantly made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario. Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet extraordinary particularity in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world.
Peopled with characters as real to us as we are to ourselves, Munros stories encompass the fullness of human experiencefrom the wild exhilaration of first love, in Passion, to the lengths a once-straying husband will go to make his wife happy as her memory fades, in The Bear Came Over the Mountain. Other stories suggest the punishing consequences of leaving home (Runaway) or leaving a marriage (The Children Stay). The part romantic love plays in ones existence is explored in Too Much Happiness, based on the life of the noted nineteenth-century mathematician, Sophia Kovalevsky. And in stories that Munro has described as closer to the truth than usualDear Life, Working for a Living, and Home among themwe glimpse the authors own life.
As the Nobel Prize presentation speech says in part: Reading one of Alice Munros texts is like watching a cat walk across a laid dinner table. A brief short story can often cover decades, summarizing a life, as she moves deftly between different periods. No wonder Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and the master of the contemporary short story.
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