Remembering Alice Munro

Alice Munro was a Canadian writer and Nobel Prize winner. She is widely considered one of the greatest short fiction writers to have ever lived. Her work has inspired and influenced work in the genre for over fifty years.

Updated May 14, 2024
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Too much happiness stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers--the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a...
Dear Life stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. Alice Munro's peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new...
Runaway Stories
Munro, Alice.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Eight "sparkling [and] beautifully drawn" (Entertainment Weekly) stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro "Each of the stories in Runaway contains enough lived life to fill...
Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage : stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro come nine short stories with "the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life" (The New York Times) "In Munro's hands, as in Chekhov's, a short story is more than big enough to hold...
Open Secrets
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
Eight stunning stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, "a true master of the form" (Salman Rushdie). "Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life."--The New York Times Book Review   In these eight...
The Progress of Love
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
Eleven stunning stories that explore the most intimate and transforming moments of existence, from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, "one of the foremost practitioners of the short story" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). "Throughout this remarkable...
The moons of Jupiter : stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
Eleven "witty, subtle, [and] passionate" (The New York Times Book Review) stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, "a true master of the form" (Salman Rushdie) "Alice Munro's fine and intelligent stories are like Edward Hopper paintings, lit with a...
: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
"An exhilarating collection" (The New York Times Book Review) of ten blended stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro "The rich texture of its narrative and the author's graceful style make [The Beggar Maid] a considerable accomplishment."--Joyce Carol...
Lives of Girls and Women: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
The debut novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, "one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction" (The New York Times). "Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary."--Newsweek  
Dance of the happy shades : stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
Fifteen stunning short stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, "a true master of the form" (Salman Rushdie). "How does one know when one is in the grip of art--of a major talent? . . . It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories."--The Wall...
The Love of a Good Woman
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
In eight "riveting [and] lovely" (San Francisco Chronicle) stories, Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro stunningly explores the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.   "Superb . . . dazzling . . . Munro's feel for her own characters is as pure as...

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