Dear Life: Stories
Format: kindle
ASIN: B008ADUHKW
Publish date: October 13th 2012
Publisher: Douglas Gibson Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I don't think I could do this book of short stories justice with a review. Munro writes stories about ordinary people in everyday situations that are a turning point in their lives. To have an affair, to stay or leave, to wait or act, to be silent or speak. She writes without any literary tricks and...
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...
Read this book as part of a challenge to read things you usually wouldn't. This definitely qualifies. How to put this, I enjoy the author's writing but not her stories. The stories are very much about life, but life when it doesn't turn out quite like you had planned. If I were to choose a fav...
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 :)
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