![]() ![]() It will, in any case, reach far beyond its time. She delves deep into human belonging and exile." The book "may very well be the synthesizing work of one of literature's keenest investigators into the human soul. Against this landscape, and with a faultless ear for poignant detail, Munro presents ordinary lives that disguise larger dramas. Runaway (2004) Excerpt of USA TODAY's review: " Runaway, her 10th short-story collection, is set in the barren, often isolated provinces of Canada and spans several decades up through the '70s. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) Reading The Moons of Jupiter in this way highlights the instability of words and requires the reader to accept a paradox: that this book, even while. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974) In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. 'Munro is herself a remarkable storyteller who, having slowly acquired a faithful audience outside her native Canada, now richly deserves recognition as one of the foremost contemporary. Here is a list of books by the 82-year-old author, who recently said she was retiring from writing:Ĭarried Away: A Selection of Stories (2006) ![]() ![]() Canadian writer Alice Munro, "master of the contemporary short story," has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for her body of work.
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