(Ebook) Selected Stories, 1968-1994 by Alice Munro ISBN 9781784876883, 1784876887

(Ebook) Selected Stories, 1968-1994 by Alice Munro ISBN 9781784876883, 1784876887

Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. To read these stories - about a travelling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey; an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude - is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves. This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 through to 1994.

"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

Alice Munro is a Canadian short-story writer who is widely considered one of the world's premier fiction writers. Munro is a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. She has thus been referred to as "the Canadian Chekhov." She is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.