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Selected Stories

Volume One 1968-1994
By Alice Munro
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Selected Stories by Alice Munro is a rich collection that showcases her expertise in exploring the complexities of human relationships and the subtleties of everyday life. Munro’s narratives often delve into themes of love, loss, and the inexorable passage of time, set against evocative Canadian landscapes. Her stories are known for their emotional depth and intricately drawn characters, offering profound insights into the human condition.
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You might enjoy these stories if you appreciate deeply human and finely crafted tales that explore complex relationships and the subtleties of everyday life. The author's narrative style is both insightful and engaging, capturing profound emotions in a seemingly effortless manner. Perfect for readers who value rich character development and nuanced storytelling.

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Selected Stories

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written

This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius.

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Selected Stories covers the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, showcasing some of the best, most touching, and powerful short stories ever written.

This first-ever selection of Munro's stories encapsulates her genius. Her exploration delves into the secrets that crackle beneath the façade of everyday life, portraying the pain and promises, loves and fears of seemingly ordinary men and women, rendered both extraordinary and unforgettable.

This volume compiles the finest of Munro's stories from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume, containing stories from 1995 to 2009, is also available from Vintage Classics.

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Alice Munro is praised for her realistic depiction of communities, particularly small, socially anxious ones, and her ability to portray the complexities and guarded realities of their inhabitants. Her writing captures the moral ambiguities and relationships' complexities with empathy and grace. Critics have hailed her as one of the finest short story writers, noting the subtlety and precision of her storytelling.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784876883

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 June 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 302g

Pages: 432

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About the Author

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has 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 The Beggar Maid, and has been 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. She lives in Port Hope, Ontario, near lake Ontario in Canada.

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