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Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that led no less a critic than John Updike to compare her to Chekhov. The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and love, anger... more...
Dear Life
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 26.95A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. Alice Munro?s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is... more...
Selected Stories
Random House Group Ltd 2012; US$ 13.34This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's 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. more...
The View from Castle Rock
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2006; US$ 14.95Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh?s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father?s dream. Scottish immigrants experience... more...
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager?s practical joke.... more...
Runaway
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95The incomparable Alice Munro?s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that... more...
Away from Her
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 9.00Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in ?The Bear Came Over the Mountain? ? the basis for Sarah Polley?s film Away From Her ? her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see... more...
Too Much Happiness
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers?the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories about the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. In... more...
The Love of a Good Woman
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to... more...
The View From Castle Rock
Random House 2010; US$ 12.00The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Catle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves... more...









