Selected Stories by Alice Munro (English) Paperback Book

Description: Selected Stories by Alice Munro This first-ever selection of Alice Munros 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The first-ever selection of one of the worlds greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munros career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written.Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety, more grace, more tender twists of the human heart - than many novelists do IndependentThis first-ever selection of Alice Munros stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the fa ade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.This volume brings together the best of Munros stories, from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories, 1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics.Few writers capture the moral ambiguities, murkiness, messiness - and joy - of relationships with as much empathy and grace as Munro GuardianWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 200 Notes This collection of Alice Munros stories includes pieces from her earliest published work, in 1968, through to her latest, in 1994. Most recently Munro won the 1994 W.H. Smith Award, and was shortlisted for the second time in 1995 for the Irish Times International Fiction Award. Her other work includes The Beggar Maid and Open Secrets. Author Biography Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canadas Governor Generals Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024. 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 Munros 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 SmileyThe 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 lifetimes oeuvre * Independent *One of the worlds 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 * Promotional The first-ever selection of one of the worlds greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. Kirkus US Review A rich selection of 28 compact and resonant stories (theyre novels in miniature, more often than not) drawn from seven highly praised collections previously published by the Ontario writer. Munro has been called, with good reason, North Americas Chekhov. Her rich elaborations of seemingly commonplace lives, in which she invariably locates the imaginative heart of lives her characters wished and meant to have lived, have grown in power and complexity over the years, to the point where the best stories in her 1994 volume, Open Secrets ("A Wilderness Station" and the magnificent "Carried Away" - surely one of the best stories of the last 50 years), have placed her in serious contention both for the Nobel Prize and for the designation of best living short-story writer (only William Trevor rivals her). Readers who dont know Munros fiction should be directed toward such marvels as "Dance of the Happy Shades," "The Beggar Maid," and "The Moons of Jupiter." But none should be neglected. "Here," as Dryden said of Chaucer, "is Gods plenty." The collection of the year. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Text 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. Review Quote 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. Promotional "Headline" The first-ever selection of one of the worlds greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. Details ISBN0099732416 Author Alice Munro Year 1997 ISBN-10 0099732416 ISBN-13 9780099732419 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Media Book Short Title SEL STORIES PB Language English Series Vintage Classics Pages 416 Publication Date 1997-11-06 Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint Vintage Replaced by 9780099541097 UK Release Date 1997-11-06 AU Release Date 1997-11-06 NZ Release Date 1997-11-06 Edited by Robert J Allison Birth 1974 Death 1790 Affiliation Suffolk University Position Customer Qualifications PH. D. Audience General Alternative 9781448161850 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1124756;

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