Dear Life: Stories
With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped -- the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of...
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With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped -- the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these stories (set in the world Munro has made her own: the countryside and towns around Lake Huron) about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a vivid and lasting portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780771064869 (0771064861)
Publish date: October 13th 2012
Publisher: Douglas Gibson Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped -- the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of bei...
Short Stories are not my favourite genre. Usually once I'm into the story it is already over again. There are only very few exceptions to this rule. Sometimes a story is better kept short and the rest left to the reader's imagination.In this collection there were several of the latter type which mad...
Nope. Just... not the right moment to read this maybe. I might try again some other time. Now I want more action :)
I don’t know why the hell it took me so long to finally sit down and read Alice Munro. I was happy as heck when I’d heard she won the Nobel Prize for Literature, because I knew she was mostly known as a short story writer. It’s always nice to see that form of writing get recognized, because I know n...