Book description
Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest
work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's
stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight.
Written with emotion and empathy, beautifully observed and
remarkably crafted, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A
masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to
being one of the 'major fiction writers of our time'.
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of twelve collections
of stories, most recently
Too Much Happiness
, 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. 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 with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near
Lake Huron in Canada.
