A Wilderness Station Selected Stories 1968-1994

"Heart-stopping, utterly beautiful. . . . One of the finest contemporary story writers in the English language." -Newsday

"She has quietly emerged as one of our greatest living writers. . . . Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary." -Newsweek

"Her stories are like few others. One must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness." -John Updike, The New York Times Book Review

"Makes one believe anew in fiction's power to transfigure." -The Washington Post

"A wonderful sampling of vintage Munro. . . . For those who have never read her, there is no better place to begin. And for those long familiar with her writing, there remain surprises and rediscoveries." -San Francisco Chronicle

"She seeks to evoke the mysteries of real life and she succeeds brilliantly." -Los Angeles Times

"[A] literary sensation . . . told with such perfect pitch that the results are stunning." -USA Today

"Meaty stories about love, marriage, discontent, divorce, betrayal, impulsive passion, second thoughts, deaths, even murder-stories with plenty of drama and surprise as well as reflection and meditation." -Wall Street Journal

"An entire world caught in the amber of memory. [The stories] have a quality of folk art about them-its patient amplitude, sly humor, and hard materiality." -Village Voice

"A rare pleasure . . . rich and complex . . . an excellent one-volume introduction to her work." -Boston Book Review

"Luminous.... Munro's stories ride on tone and feeling: Merely summarizing one is like describing a villa by holding up its doorbell." -Vogue

"The collection of the year. Ήere,' as Dryden said of Chaucer, 'is God's plenty." -Kirkus Reviews