Alice Munro Books

Short Stories. This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature ** 'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready' The Times Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, written with emotion and empathy, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the major fiction writers of our time.

The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman --is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.

"From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature ... a new selection of her ... short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected stories (1968-1994)"-- Dust jacket flap.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. "[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Exploring the intricate dynamics of love, this collection of eleven stories delves into relationships among children and parents, siblings, and estranged lovers. Each narrative, including "Miles City, Montana," "Lichen," and "White Dump," highlights the complexities and emotional depth of these connections, revealing how love can shape and transform lives.

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. âe~Alice Munroâe(tm)s stories are miraculousâe(tm) Sunday Times âe~No one else can âe" or should be allowed to âe" write like the great Alice Munroâe(tm) Julian Barnes âe~She sets down the pains and pleasures of living in a spare, singing prose, not a word wastedâe(tm) Daily Telegraph âe~Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to lastâe(tm) Observer âe~She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptiveâe(tm) Jeffrey Eugenides

Ranging from the 1850s to the present and from Ontario to Brisbane and Albania, these eight linked stories are concerned with the daily threads of life in two small Ontario towns. All the stories centre on unconventional women who refuse to let themselves be constrained by society or everyday life.

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“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 TribuneIn an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short stories, Alice Munro has unfolded the wordless secrets that lie at the heart of all human experience. She has won three Governor General’s Literary Awards in her native Canada, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout her The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter ; The Progress of Love ; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage ; “Differently,” from Selected Stories , and “Carried Away,” from Open Secrets .

My Best Stories is a dazzling selection of stories—seventeen favourites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed. "Royal Beatings" shows us right away how far we are from the romantic world of happy endings. "The Albanian Virgin" smashes the idea that all of her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario's "Alice Munro Country." "A Wilderness Station" breaks short story rules by transporting us back to the 1830s and then jumping forward more than a hundred years. And the final story, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," which was adapted into the film Away from Her, leads us far beyond the turkey-plucking world of young girls into unflinching old age. Every story in this selection is superb. It is a book to read—and reread—very slowly, savouring each separate story. This collection of small masterpieces deserves a place in every book lover's home.

A collection of stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways.

In this collection, Alice Munro captures the lives of ordinary women; their passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. 'One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant' Observer Munro explores women who are unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy, and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems- as in her title story it can be needy and murderous. Here are women behaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running off with unsuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

An anthology of stories probing the human psyche. In the title story, a woman prepares to put her life on the line to get a man. She will confront him with a murder he committed, at which point he might kill her, but if he doesn't she will have him in her power

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the fa ade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable. This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories, 1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics.

In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.

THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe 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 of human contact.

Presents three stories connected into one narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. This work is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances.

Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. It is written with emotion and empathy.

Fifteen short stories set in typical Alice Munro territory, the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario.

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd step-mother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer. Illumined by Munro’s unflinching insight, these lives draw us in with their quiet depth and surprise us with unexpected turns. And while most are set in her signature territory around Lake Huron, some strike even closer to home: an astonishing suite of four autobiographical tales offers an unprecedented glimpse into Munro’s own childhood. Exalted by her clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, Dear Life shows how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.

Open Secrets, Alice Munro's eighth collection, features eight extraordinary stories, each as rich as a full novel, offering both compelling reading and rewarding re-reading. The collection opens with a mysterious 1917 letter to a librarian in Carstairs, Ontario, drawing readers into a realm of secrets and revelations where nothing is as it seems, including a courtship by letter that evolves into a solid marriage. The stories traverse Ontario's history, from "A Wilderness Station," recounting an 1852 tree-felling accident that highlights the pioneers' harsh lives, to contemporary settings filled with familiar family names amidst TV shows and snowmobiles. The narratives shift through time and geography, as seen in "The Albanian Virgin," where a Canadian tourist in the 1920s is captured by bandits, and her escape story comforts a bookseller seeking to leave her past behind. "The Jack Randa Hotel" follows a deserted wife pursuing her husband to Australia, leading to another captivating letter. Unexplainable events abound, such as a lawyer's wife experiencing a chilling insight into a missing teenager's fate and the haunting return of a long-dead visitor. Munro's mastery lies in her ability to unfold unexpected marriages, elopements, and sudden acts of vengeance with an effortless inevitability, a hallmark of her exceptional writing evident on every page.

Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.

In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada. "Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life."--New York Times Book Review

Del Jordan's scrapbook of memories records a young girl changing from childhood to adolescence._

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.

When Queenie elopes with a recently widowed neighbour her family are uniformly shocked, and a window on adult life and relationships is opened for her step-sister. A summertime stay with the newlyweds in Toronto yields further insight into the lives of couples, but also causes confusion. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage .

Alice Munro turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. 'One of my very favourite writers' Claire Tomalin From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

Eine an Alzheimer erkrankte Frau überrascht ihren Ehemann, der sie ein Leben lang betrogen hat, mit der Liebe zu einem Rollstuhlfahrer im Pflegeheim.Verdrängte Schuld, die heimlich weiterwirkt, rätselvolle Beziehungen, bestürzend kühne Momente des Ausbrechens aus dem eigenen das ist der Stoff, aus dem Munros Erzählungen sind.

Ebben ​a meglepetésekkel teli nyolc történetben Alice Munro, a novella műfajának élő klasszikusa lélegzetelállítóan biztos kézzel örökíti meg azokat a pillanatokat, amikor valaki lerázza magáról a konvenciókat, a múltat, a végzetet. A Nyílt titkok megszállottan levelező, rejtélyes és nyughatatlan hősnői minduntalan azzal szembesülnek, milyen megsemmisítő erővel lobbanhat fel újra meg újra a régi szerelem. Alice Munro a tőle megszokott humorral, bölcsességgel és szomorúsággal mesél az élet furcsaságairól: eltűnt iskolás lányokról, a kanadai határvidékre kiközvetített árvaházi menyasszonyról, egy magányosan élő, különc nőről, aki egy felülmúlhatatlanul furcsa vacsoravendégség során egy Ausztráliából érkezett, gazdag, egzotikus kérőre tesz szert, holott ez egyáltalán nem állt szándékában. Ki gondolná, hogy egy, a Balkánon fogságba esett nő romantikus története milyen felszabadító hatással lehet egy másik nőre, aki a férje és a szeretője elől menekül napjaink Kanadájában? Vagy hogy milyen elfojtott traumák vezethetnek egy fiatal házaspár vandalizmusához? Alice Munro szokatlan sorsú szereplői különös helyet foglalnak el maguknak az olvasó emlékezetében, ugyanolyan nehéz őket száműzni onnan, mint a gyerekkorból ismerős hóbortos, arccsipkedő rokonokat.

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 Endlich wieder lieferbar! In einer der Geschichten aus ›Glaubst du, es war Liebe?‹ lernt Georgia den Tiefseetaucher Miles kennen. Sie schläft mit ihm, im Auto und am Strand, beginnt eine Affäre. Sie ist nicht im Geringsten verliebt, fühlt sich „vom Kosmos beschenkt“, bis sich ihr Leben mit Lügen füllt… Ein Band mit Geschichten, wie sie nur die Nobelpreisträgerin Alice Munro schreiben kann – über Frauen, die Vieles verlieren und Großes gewinnen: ein Leben.

Em 'O amor de uma boa mulher', Alice Munro apresenta contos marcados pela habilidade cinematográfica e um olhar que é ao mesmo tempo panorâmico e intimista. A autora canadense explora pequenas cidades do condado de Huron, revelando indivíduos deslocados da norma, abordando temas como velhice, doença, transtornos mentais e diferenças em relação à maioria. Munro sugere que a condição feminina se entrelaça com a marginalidade. Em 'Jacarta', uma mulher sobrevive dando aulas de ballet após a suposta morte do marido jornalista; em 'Ilha de Cortes', a protagonista anseia por ser escritora, mas enfrenta o fracasso; e em 'As crianças ficam', Pauline, uma jovem mãe com uma aparência peculiar, é convidada a interpretar Eurídice em uma montagem teatral amadora, o que transforma sua vida. As narrativas retrocedem da atualidade à década de 1950, um período em que o trabalho feminino era muitas vezes apenas um intervalo entre o casamento e a maternidade, criando um desconforto em um contexto que precedeu a Revolução Sexual. A posição dessas mulheres, muitas vezes à margem, as coloca em situações desafiadoras na vida social, contrastando com a precisão dos roteiros masculinos e a precariedade dos destinos femininos.

Elles fuguent. S'échappent. S'en voir ailleurs. Elles : des femmes comme les autres. Par usure ou par hasard, un beau matin, elles quittent le domicile familial ou conjugal sans se retourner. En huit nouvelles, Alice Munro met en scène ces vies bouleversées. Avec légèreté, avec férocité, elle traque les marques laissées par le temps et les occasions perdues.

Parcourant avec un talent inimitable le territoire familier des relations entre hommes et femmes, mettant à nu les ressorts intimes des personnages, qui nous ressemblent, les récits d'Alice Munro portent à la perfection l'art de la nouvelle dont elle est aujourd'hui l'une des plus grands stylistes. Dans ce recueil, l'écrivain canadien évoque avec une rare sensibilité et une écriture proche des minimalistes américains, le destin d'êtres troublés par un monde qui évolue trop vite, hantés par leurs souvenirs, souvent en rébellion contre l'hypocrisie d'une société encore prisonnière de ses traditions victoriennes. L'adultère, l'amour le sens du devoir sont le piment et le poison de ces vies passionnées où l'on peut lire entre les lignes les secrets et les intermittences du cœur.

Una joven madre recibe consuelo inesperado por la muerte de sus tres hijos, otra mujer reacciona de forma insólita ante la humillación a la que la somete un hombre; otros cuentos describen la crueldad de los niños y los huecos de soledad que se crean en el día a día de la vida de pareja. Como broche de oro, en el último cuento acompañamos a Sofi a Kovalevski, una matemática rusa que realmente vivió a mediados del siglo XIX, en su largo peregrinaje a través de Europa en busca de una universidad que admitiera a mujeres como profesoras, y viviremos con ella su historia de amor con un hombre que hizo lo que supo por decepcionarla. Anécdotas en apariencia banales se transforman en las manos de Munro en pura emoción, y su estilo muestra estas emociones sin dificultad, gracias a un talento excepcional que arrastra al lector dentro de las historias casi sin preámbulos. «Ella odiaba la palabra escapismo referida a la ficción. Era más bien la vida real la que merecía ser tildada de escapismo...» Estas palabras, pronunciadas por uno de sus personajes, podrían referirse a toda la prosa de Munro, que pasea heridas hondas con inteligencia e ironía, con esa hondura feroz y austera que sorprende a quien lee, como si algo de nosotros mismos que no sabíamos, que quizá no queríamos saber, de pronto se hubiera deslizado en las páginas de un libro.

Die in »Ferne Verabredungen« versammelten schönsten Erzählungen der kanadischen Nobelpreisträgerin Alice Munro, darunter auch, erstmals auf Deutsch, ihre frühe Erzählung »Die Dimensionen eines Schattens«, spiegeln das ganze Panorama ihrer Kunst. Da ist die junge Pauline in der berühmten Erzählung »Die Kinder bleiben hier«, die Hals über Kopf ihre Familie verlässt, oder Fiona und Grant in »Der Bär kletterte über den Berg«, deren langjährige Ehe sich durch Fionas Demenz fundamental verändert. Es sind Geschichten von verborgenen Sehnsüchten, die sich allmählich ihren Raum erobern, scheinbar belanglosen Ereignissen, die doch ein ganzes Dasein infrage stellen, Geschichten vom Unterwegssein, von kühnen Momenten des Ausbrechens – mal eindringlich, mal beunruhigend, doch immer voller Sympathie für das Leben und seine Helden. Mit einem Nachwort von Manuela Reichart.

Felicità? Troppa felicità? Qual è il limite entro cui ci si può dire felici? Per Alice Munro è chiaro: la felicità sta nel potenziale di spregiudicatezza della vecchiaia, l'età che permette di spingersi fino a fondo nel vortice della vita. E se poi la felicità è troppa, restano le storie. Storie di omicidi, furti, suicidi, crudeltà, bugie, che portano allo scoperto le crepe e le fratture che sfregiano silenziosamente anche le esistenze normali. E rendono visibile quello che si nasconde dietro ad ogni illusione, ad ogni tentativo di dimenticare e di distorcere ciò che è stato. Con una scrittura sempre piú consapevole e mai cosí grande Alice Munro trascina il lettore in un caleidoscopio di racconti di bellezza incandescente, animati «da un'elettricità inedita, una scarica di tremenda libertà».

Lasciarsi andare raccoglie diciassette racconti, scelti da Alice Munro tra i suoi preferiti. Diciassette pietre miliari che scandiscono un percorso affascinante lungo la sua carriera, le sue opere, i suoi temi. E che ci permettono di osservare, con un unico colpo d'occhio, l'evoluzione del suo talento. Prefazione di Margaret Atwood

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 »Wozu wollen Sie das wissen?« Alice Munros Spurensuche in der eigenen Familiengeschichte und Erinnerung führt in die reizvolle Wirklichkeit von Dichtung und Wahrheit: elf Erzählungen der großen kanadischen Autorin, in denen sie Historie und Imagination auf faszinierende Weise miteinander verquickt.

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 Alice Munro vermag es wie niemand sonst, so viel Realität, so viel Verstrickung auf so wenigen Seiten unterzubringen. Sie weiß ihre Figuren auf so knappem Raum so präzise auszuloten, den Leser so geschickt über das scheinbar Alltägliche mitten ins Dunkle, Geheimnisvolle der menschlichen Psyche zu stoßen. Ihre Storys sind Kammerspiele des Gefühls, spektakulär im scheinbar Unspektakulären - sprachliche Meisterstücke. Alice Munro hält alles in der Schwebe, erlöst uns nicht vorschnell aus unserer Unsicherheit, sondern webt uns ein in ihr erzählerisches Netz: ihr einziges Zuhause.

Una joven madre recibe consuelo inesperado por la muerte de sus tres hijos, otra mujer reacciona de forma insólita ante la humillación a la que la somete un hombre; otros cuentos describen la crueldad de los niños y los huecos de soledad que se crean en el día a día de la vida de pareja. Como broche de oro, en el último cuento acompañamos a Sofía Kovalevski, una matemática rusa que realmente vivió a mediados del siglo XIX, en su largo peregrinaje a través de Europa en busca de una universidad que admitiera a mujeres como profesoras, y viviremos con ella su historia de amor con un hombre que hizo lo que supo por decepcionarla. Contents: Dimensiones -- Ficción -- El filo de Wenlock -- Pozos profundos -- Radicales libres -- Cara -- Algunas mujeres -- Juego de niños -- Madera -- Demasiada felicidad.

Het uitzicht vanaf Castle Rock is het meest persoonlijke boek van Alice Munro (geboren Laidlaw) waarin ze uit haar familiegeschiedenis put. Haar voorouders van vaderskant hebben sinds mensenheugenis in Schotland gewoond en het is haar vaders betovergrootvader die met zijn gezin de oversteek naar de Nieuwe Wereld waagt. Er zijn brieven bewaard gebleven van meerdere generaties Laidlaw; zo heeft Munro een beeld kunnen geven van hoe het de nieuwe emigranten en hun nageslacht verging.

De liefde van een goede vrouw bevat zes verhalen die lezen als korte romans. De meestal vrouwelijke personages proberen hun dagelijks bestaan, of dat van anderen, naar hun hand te zetten – in werkelijkheid of in hun fantasie. Ze ontmoeten nieuwe mensen, knopen relaties aan, verliezen een geliefde, en maken keuzes in het leven. Maar ze rekenen daarbij buiten de onvermoede en geheime kracht van de liefde. Bevat de verhalen: De liefde van een goede vrouw Cortes Eiland Slechts de maaier De kinderen blijven Stinkend rijk Voor de ommezwaai In deze bundel zijn niet opgenomen de verhalen 'Djakarta' en 'De droom van mijn moeder'.

Edition originale, 1968. Prix du Gouverneur général, la même année. L'auteur est l'un des écrivains canadiens-anglais les plus en vue. Ses quinze nouvelles ont pour cadre de petites villes et la campagne du sud-ouest de l'Ontario, et pour sujet principal le monde profond, cruel et mélancolique de l'enfance. Très accessible. Des textes autobiographiques qui ont cependant "toute l'autorité de la nature humaine" (##The English quarterly##). [SDM].