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Title	:	Selected Stories
Author	:	Alice Munro
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 688 pages
Published	:	November 11th 1997 by Vintage (first published January 14th 1985)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Literature

Selected Stories

Alice Munro

Paperback | Pages: 688 pages

Rating: 4.28 | 6362 Users | 331 Reviews

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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 traveling 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. Walker brothers cowboy -- Dance of the happy shades -- Postcard -- Images -- Something I've been meaning to tell you -- The Ottawa Valley -- Material -- Royal beatings -- Wild swans -- The beggar maid -- Simon's luck -- Chaddeleys and Flemings -- Dulse -- The turkey season -- Labor Day dinner -- The moons of Jupiter -- The progress of love -- Lichen -- Miles City, Montana -- White dump -- Fits -- Friend of my youth -- Meneseteung -- Differently -- Carried away -- The Albanian virgin -- A wilderness station -- Vandals.

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Original Title:	Selected Stories
ISBN:	067976674X (ISBN13: 9780679766742)
Edition Language:	English

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A must-own volume if you love short stories.

There couldnt be a better book if you talk about short stories than this! This is the best of the stories of the best short story writer now alive! ALICE MUNRO! When would she win the NOBEL PRIZE? I should go on that she is severely understated! Why? Perhaps the readers could not get her writing because she writes about the same theme: a girl from a rural Canadian town growing up to discover her sexuality, find her place in the socitey, exploring love and hatred and at times rebelling from the

Seriously one on the best short story collections I've ever read. Each story is alive and brimming with emotion. Some made me want to cry, some shocked me, some had me putting the book down in disbelief, grabbing my forehead, pacing around my apartment in order to mull over what I had just read. I cannot say enough good things about Munro. In the introduction she refers to her stories as "houses"that one walks into, rather than linear paths one must take, and I am inclined to see her stories

This is totally random, but when we were in Victoria, BC, I walked into this giant, wonderful bookstore called Munro's Books. I bought a few things there, and the cashier gave me some free store bookmarks. Well, I pulled one out the other day to stick in this book, and then read in the author bio that Alice Munro is in fact the owner of Munro's Books! Go figure.The stories I have read so far are WONDERFUL. Thanks for the rec, Paula!

28 of Alice Munro's best short stories written between 1961 and 1994. Most of them depict glances of everyday life. The standpoint is often that of a fragile, lonely, yet self-reliant woman, at different ages and moods. The subtleties and depth of thought reveal a lifetime dedicated to experiencing, observing and interpreting human endeavors. The aftertaste is mostly nostalgic and full of mild regret. Though for sure a fine selection, I find the range of the stories very broad, varying from some

I love this book.Munro is a genius. The stories are beautifully written and constantly shift in unexpected directions. She does fascinating things with time and the narrators' voices but you barely notice any of the technical work because the stories are so engrossing. The stories span 30 years of Munro's career but there are some common links between them. Certain themes pop up again and again. They all take place in the Canadian countryside and all of the characters have secrets, some of which

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.From short accounts of singular events to the sprawling history of a life or love affair, Alice Munro shows it is the little things that matter most. These things within things - the greater truth in the smallest of details, are the hearts and souls of her fiction. Selected Stories is an excellent best-of introduction to the author as it collects 28 stories from three decades