Publisher Description
In the powerful, haunting stories of Munro’s new collection, men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have given shape to their lives.
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“Munro is an established author, one of the few who have mastered the art
of short story writing…The primary characters, mainly women, have diverse
relationships with their families and other unusual acquaintances. The
plots are sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always within the realm
of realism…readers will find
these stories entertaining and often thought-provoking. Recommended.”
—
Library Journal
About Alice Munro
Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature,
grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.
She has published eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected
stories, as well as a novel. During her distinguished career she has been the
recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor
General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the
Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, the
United States’ National Book Critics Circle Award, the Edward MacDowell Medal
in literature, and the Man Booker International Prize. 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 Clinton, Ontario, near Lake
Huron.
About Beth Fowler
Beth Fowler’s Broadway performances include Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, Baby, Teddy and Alice, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Take Me Along, Peter Pan, and A Little Music. Beth can be seen on television in Law & Order, Loving, and Another World, and in both Sister Act films.