- National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Social life and customs, Fiction, Short Stories
In 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.
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Prestige, spare, earnest and classical in form.
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Alice Munro
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- M&S, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Sound Library
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- Dutch, Chinese, dan, German
- ISBN
- 9780099287865
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“FOR the last couple of decades, there has been a museum in Walley, dedicated to preserving photos and butter churns and horse harnesses and old dentist's chair and a cumbersome apple peeler and such curiosities as the pretty little porcelain-and-glass insulators that were used on telegraph poles.”
Alice Ann Munro (/mʌnˈroʊ/, née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."
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