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"In Munro's hands, as in Chekhov's, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world--and to astonish us again and again." --"Chicago Tribune
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The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain[...]

These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. In fact, Munro's characters pulse with idiosyncratic life. Under the polished surface of these unsentimental dispatches fr[...]

Munros beste består av tjue noveller fra hele hennes foreløpige forfatterskap. Første og andre verdenskrig, mellomkrigstidens depresjon i Canada, moderne kvinnefrigjøring; dette og mer tjener som bakgrunn for livene beskrevet hos Alice Munro. De store forhold griper inn i de små, men til tross[...]

Captivating readers with astounding insights into humanity, Alice Munro delivers some of her finest prose in this stunning collection of short stories. In "Runaway," a neighbor helps a wife escape from her husband; in "Passion," alcoholism disrupts a young woman's first love affair; in "Trespasses,"[...]

Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordina[...]

Alice Munro's collection of stories reads like a novel chronicling the life of Rose, who battles against her repressive stepmother Flo and eventually escapes her impoverished Canadian small-town roots to forge her own path in the world.[...]

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children,[...]

Includes stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, and about moments which change or haunt a life.[...]

Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munr[...]

Alice Munros peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is forever altered by a chance encounter or an action not t[...]

Presents a collection of ten stories that convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience; from a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother to an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins, and more.[...]