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
2009 winner of the Man Booker International Prize. This stunning collection of stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in what can only be termed "Alice Munro Country," others have a new, sharper...
Dear Life stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller -- A brilliant new collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped -- the moment a person turns...
The view from Castle Rock stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. In stories that are more personal than any that she’s written before, Alice Munro pieces her family’s history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh’s...
Runaway : stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
“Runaway” is the first story in this stunning collection, sure to be a runaway success. All of the eight stories here are new, published in book form for the first time. Two of the eight have never appeared anywhere, so this will be a special feast for the millions of Munro fans around...
Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage : stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
A superb new collection from one of our best and best-loved writers. Nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory–a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life. The fate of a strong...
Open Secrets
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
There is a remarkable magic in these eight matchless stories--stories set in Ontario, Australia, Europe; in dangerous mountains, forbidding wilderness, familiar towns. In the title story, a lawyer's wife has a flash of insight--illogical, unprovable, and terrifying--into the fate of a missing...
The Progress of Love
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
With the ease and mastery that have won extraordinary acclaim for her writing, these eleven stories by Alice Munro explore the most intimate and transforming moments of experience--moments when the shape of life is set, moments of realization about the burden, the power, and the nature of love.<...
The moons of Jupiter : stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
"Munro's work endures-its wholeness of vision, its complexity of feeling, its tolerance of mind." --Lorrie Moore 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...
: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
A small-town girl who dreams of greater things, trying to get away from a place that wants to hold her back. A series of stories exploring the pursuit of ambition, and the fear and shame of potential failure. In this award-winning collection from the acclaimed Alice Munro, we...
Lives of Girls and Women: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
A mother and daughter, caged with the internal strife of stifled desires, trapped ambition, and silenced dreams, seeking more in the world beyond home. "There is a change coming in the lives of girls and women." Del Jordan and her mother long for more outside of their...
Alice Munro's Best: Selected Stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. . . . Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones. This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro's growing body of admirers, what...
Family furnishings : selected stories, 1995-2014
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature -- perhaps our most beloved author -- a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994). By all accounts, no Nobel Prize...
Dance of the happy shades : stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
In the stories that make up Dance of the Happy Shades, the deceptive calm of small-town life is brought memorably to the page, revealing the countryside of Southwestern Ontario to be home to as many small sufferings and unanticipated emotions as any place. This is the book that earned Alice...
Carried away : a personal selection of stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
A dazzling selection of seventeen stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro--featuring an Introduction by Margaret Atwood "Munro stands as one of the living colossi of the modern short story, and her Chekhovian realism, her keen psychological insight, her instinctive...
The love of a good woman : stories
Munro, Alice
Paper Book
All of these eight wonderful stories are about what people will do for love, and the unexpected routes their passion will force them to take. An old landlady in Vancouver who alarms the just-married narrator with her prim advice about married life – and “the peculiar threat...

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