carried away a selection of stories alice munro

In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn’t know change her life forever, Munro’s unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.Īlice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.

Munro’s incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Here are such favorites as “Royal Beatings” in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation “Friend of My Youth” in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself and “The Albanian Virgin,' a romantic tale of capture and escape in Central Europe that may or may not be true but that nevertheless comforts the hearer, who is on a desperate adventure of her own. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway. With an Introduction by Margaret Atwood.Īlice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013Ĭarried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.

Carried away a selection of stories alice munro