These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.
‘Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail’ Sunday Times
A wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099524298
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 224 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 19 mm
She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny, apprehension of what goes on - Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
Some of the most honest, intuitive and exacting fiction, long or short, of our time - Tom Gatti, The Times
Munro's bold, unflinching narratives have taken the short story places many a novelist has feared to tread... That she does this in a style both calm and deliberate, fluid yet tightly controlled, stark yet compassionate, is what makes her insights into the human condition so profound - Mary Crockett, Scotsman
Written with veteran assurance, brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail, these dispatches from the most unsparing reaches of Munro's imagination confirm her acclaimed place on the highest ground of contemporary fiction - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
Alice Munro commands enormous respect and almost uncritical adoration from her readers - Elaine Showalter, Literary Review
I always thought I liked short stories but I've decided I don't. The classic ones for example by Somerset Maugham, seem to be complete with a beginning a middle and an end. But these and other modern ones,... More
Alice Munro is not a writer I am familiar with although I am a big fan of short stories. The first story ‘Dimensions’ left me wanting to know what happened next as the ending was a little unsatisfactory, but that... More
I hadn’t realised this was a book of short stories when I picked it up – I usually avoid these like the plague, finding that I’ve just become engrossed in the tale and it suddenly cuts off, leaving me feeling cheated.... More
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