![]() ![]() ![]() These ‘things within things’ - the greater truth in the smallest of details, are the hearts and souls of her fiction. ![]() ![]() I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.’įrom short accounts of singular events to the sprawling history of a life or love affair, Alice Munro shows it is the little things that matter most. ‘ The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. Something I've been meaning to tell you. To read these stories-about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude-is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. ![]()
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