**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**
The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009
Man Booker International Prize
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize
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 Canada's Governor General's 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.
Deep and surprising and unsparing
*Guardian*
As rich and astonishing as anything she has ever done before
*New York Review of Books*
In this book Munro has laid bare the foundations of her fiction as
never before. Lovers of her writing must hope this is not, in fact,
her finale. But if it is, it’s spectacular
*Daily Telegraph*
Another dazzling collection of short stories, provincial and
universal in equal measure
*Observer*
A slight sense of withholding gives Munro's prose its gracefulness,
and allows intimacy without danger. After many years, many
collections and many wonderful stories, readers may feel they know
everything about Alice Munro, especially as so many of her
characters lead lives similar to her own. In fact, we know very
little about her. This is one of the reasons readers become dizzy
with love for Munro. This other reason is that she is so damn
good
*Guardian*
Alice Munro is one of our greatest living writers, and this new
collection of stories…is essential reading for anyone who cares
about literature, storytelling and language, or who savours the
deep enjoyment of a writer at the height of her powers…These
stories remind us of the world Munro was born into…And they remind
us, therefore, how lucky we are to have Munro herself and her
subtle, intelligent and true work
*Financial Times*
Told with magnificent understatement
*Daily Mail*
Deceptively artless...Munro has no need for tricks; there is
nothing strange. Just everyday life, in all its plain, abundant
richness and sorrow
*Metro*
Alice Munro…can create a whole world in a short story – these
stories are only 20 or 30 pages long, but they live in the mind
like novels… These are stories about the stories we tell ourselves,
and they are first rate
*Evening Standard*
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