Selected Stories
Paperback - 1998
"All of her characters, even the minor ones, are given histories. And in the end we are witness to eruptions of emotional earthquakes, large and small."
- Newsday
- Newsday
"Alice Munro is a great story writer...These stories are loosely woven and brilliantly wrought...she is unique, there is no one quite like her."
- A.S. Byatt, The Globe and Mail
"Takes your breath away..."
- Sunday Times (UK)
"A gallery of masterpieces...the arc of a life becomes a dazzling shuffle of a deck of photographs arranged as a story... Selected Stories goes on the bookshelf with other masterworks of modern literature, with Chekov, Faulkner, Woolf. Munro, like these writers, tills her ordinary soil and digs into universal themes."
- The Financial Post
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Publisher:
Toronto, Ont. : Penguin Books of Canada, 1998, c1996.
ISBN:
9780140267754
0140267751
0140267751
Characteristics:
xvii, 686 pages ;,21 cm.
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Add a CommentI love reading stories written by Alice Munro. They portray small slices of daily life capturing the brilliance of a day, the glow of a friendship, the delight of ice cream, the joy of being. They also display human greed, pettiness as well as brilliance and love. I find it all in her stories.
Alice Munro is one of the best short story writers of all time.
Short stories are not everyone's idea of a great read - some of us just don't enjoy the format. But if you're willing to give them a try, this is an excellent overview of a magnificent writer's work. It's amazing how much Munro conveys with her deceptively simple style.