by Alice Munro, Kymberly Dakin
Is Alice Munro, winner of three Governor General Awards, the Giller Prize, and numerous other Canadian and international literary awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature, beyond criticism? I just finished Runaway, a collection of eight of her short stories. Actually, there are only five sin...
Runaway by Alice Munro is another wonderful collection, filled with complex relationships and suffocating struggles. The book contains eight stories (three of them center around a single character). In each story, Munro paints us an in-depth picture of a woman struggling with life-altering decisions...
I decided to read this book based on a recommendation in Jonathan Franzen's book Farther Away. Not only will I be reading other recommendations by Franzen, I'll be reading more of Alice Munro as well.I find Munro's writing style pleasing. Concise and to the point, while still being descriptive, no...
I've never read Alice Munro before—well, maybe a story or two here and there (though I don't get The New Yorker so I wouldn't ordinarily run into them). And here's a whole book, and it's devastating. She packs more detail and character into 20 pages than most writers get into a novel, and everything...
Recommended by Diana Athill
I'd heard how good Alice Munro is and how she's the best living short story writer but as a guy, the domestic detail themes were putting me off, a little.If you are male and think this writer isn't for you, you'd be wrong. If you are a feeling human being you'll get something from them. She has a wa...
What you would expect from Alice Munro. She came out with Lives of Girls and Women in 1971, and has been writing about...well....the lives of girls and women ever since then. I really liked the story called "Tricks," because the ending twist surprised me! Had me fooled. :)
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