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A remarkable early collection of stories by Alice Munro, the bestselling author of Dear Life, and one of the greatest fiction writers of our time.
'Alice Munro's stories are miraculous'
Sunday Times
'No one else can - or should be allowed to - write like the great Alice Munro'
Julian Barnes
'She sets down the pains and pleasures of living in a spare, singing prose, not a word wasted'
Daily Telegraph
'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to last'
Observer
'She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive'
Jeffrey Eugenides
'Alice Munro's stories are miraculous'
Sunday Times
'No one else can - or should be allowed to - write like the great Alice Munro'
Julian Barnes
'She sets down the pains and pleasures of living in a spare, singing prose, not a word wasted'
Daily Telegraph
'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to last'
Observer
'She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive'
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.
© Derek Shapton